January 28th 2017, a mosque in Victoria, Texas is destroyed by an arson attack. Who set fire to it? Why? And what happened next? These are the questions that Li Lu explores in A Town Called Victoria, a new three-part docu-series on PBS. In this episode of Factual America, Li discusses the series, the solidarity and division that came out of and was revealed by the arson attack, and some of the film’s themes, including white supremacy, patriotism, and mental illness, and how a small town in Texas is a microcosm of every American community.

Stamped from the Beginning explains and dismantles nine racist lies about black people that Americans have been told since the foundation of the country. Using a mix of interviews, animation, music, VFX and more, Roger Ross Williams brings Dr. Ibram X Kendi’s ground-breaking book of the same name to life in memorable fashion. Among the topics discussed by Roger and Ibram with Matthew Sherwood are the themes of the film, why they decided to use a nearly all female cast, and what they hope the film will achieve. The final result is, as Matthew notes, a truly uplifting documentary.

Narrated by Samuel L Jackson, 'I Am Not Your Negro' (2016) uses James Baldwin’s unfinished manuscript to tell the horrific history of racism in America.