The History of White People in America

How America Made Skin Color Power

By Ed Bell, Clementine Briand, Pierce Freelon, Jonathan Halperin, Aaron Keane and Drew Takahashi

How skin became color, color became race and race became power as told by President Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and one of their six children, Eston Hemings.

READ ON: WGBH's Stacy Buchanan talks with director/musician Pierce Freelon about the series and the experience of working with his mother, jazz singer Nnenna Freelon, on the project.