In Development

Filmmaker Stanley Nelson's syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, spanning its African and early jazz roots.

'Creating the New World' is a groundbreaking series that examines how the largest forced migration in history constructed notions of race and identity, built new economies, and gave rise to global capitalism.

'The Color of Cola' sheds light on the experience of the all-Black sales team at Pepsi, which was the first of its kind for any major corporation – following their journey through the Jim Crow South after being tasked with tapping its African American market.

In 'Medical Racism' (w.t.), NOVA will reveal not only the long history of racism within our healthcare system and how environmental factors stemming from continued residential segregation contribute to racial health disparities, but also the science of how racism has a direct impact on the human body, making people of color much more vulnerable to disease and chronic illness.

'Sun Ra and the Roots of Afrofuturism' is about the life, work and legacy of American jazz legend Sun Ra. Born Herman Poole Blount in 1914 in Birmingham, Alabama, Sun Ra claimed that he had been “teleported” to Saturn and espoused a theory of Blackness as the foundation of the “omniverse,” from the birthplace of civilization in ancient Egypt through the Space Age.