Tonight, on CNN’s United Shades of America, we head to Chicago, the home of the Bulls, Oprah and host W. Kamau Bell’s “awkward teenage years”. It is also the home of famous gangster Al Capone, and one of the highest murder rates in the USA. The city has a bad rap, but Kamau asks —
On tonight’s premiere episode of United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell, his focus is on immigrants — but he also interviews the man who coined the term “alt-right”, Richard Spencer. In the jarring teaser interview posted below, Spencer talks to Kamau bluntly about his xenophobic and racist party platform in an episode that
This week CNN’s United Shades of America went off the grid – from a paranoid isolationist prepper to nice sweet potato beer makers who want to live a more pared-down sustainable life. Host W. Kamau Bell visited Asheville, North Carolina, and parts of Tennessee, to experience the 0ff-grid lifestyle, and discovered a hotbed of preppers, patriots
Did you know it is National Police Week? Perfect timing for CNN’s latest episode of United Shades of America, which took star W. Kamau Bell for a ride with the police force in Campden, New Jersey, where they are trying to introduce “community policing” in a bid to build trust with residents. Kamau’s perspective is,
CNN’s May 8th United Shades of America focuses on Mexicans, Chicanos and less on our east coast Spanish friends the Puerto Ricans, Cubans, and Argentinian-Americans. Hispanic culture is described by one interviewed Chicano musician as a “census word” … a giant catch-all term that is meant to cover all in the USA who speak Spanish.
We warmly welcome back W. Kamau Bell to the smallscreen, as our host brings his open mind and curious nature to explore every damned thing going on and going wrong in the United States of America on this new CNN Original Series “United Shades of America” which premieres on Sunday, April 24, at 10 p.m.