聚焦美国第一个白手起家的黑人女性百万富翁、一百年前的美容美发业大亨C·J·沃克。她是奴隶之女，7岁成为孤儿，14岁结婚，20岁守寡，当了20年的洗衣女工。过程中她发明了一种革命性的洗发产品，适合黑人女性发质，并以此建立起了为黑人女性提供美容、健康产品的产业帝国。
该剧将展现她如何克服社会、混乱的家庭和混乱等困难因素，从一穷二白到建起产业。改编自沃克的曾曾孙女A'Lelia Bundles所著书籍《On Our Own Ground》，Bundles也将出任剧集顾问。卡斯·莱蒙斯(《黑暗的降生》《卢克·凯奇》)执导首集并制片，Nicole Asher编写剧本，共有8集。

Malcolm is carefully surviving life in a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles while juggling college applications, academic interviews, and the SAT. A chance invitation to an underground party leads him into an adventure that could allow him to go from being a geek, to being dope, to ultimately being himself.

Nat Turner, a former slave in America, leads a liberation movement in 1831 to free African-Americans in Virginia that results in a violent retaliation from whites.

Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, battles through one of his career-defining cases.

After a teenager has a terrifying vision of him and his friends dying in a plane crash, he prevents the accident only to have Death hunt them down, one by one.

Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. Partly based on a true story.

Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to Buggin' Out and to other people in the neighborhood, and tensions rise.