Adolph Reed discusses the changes that have occurred in the South since the civil right era in his book "The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives."

Jason Manning, co-author of The Rise of Victimhood Culture, discusses a new moral culture behind the word "woke."

In Episode 7th, "Transformation of the Talented Tenth," examines how the New Black Middle Class has stepped away from the role of the "talented tenth" that was once proscribed by W.E.B. DuBois. Also looks at how black public intellectual became "market" intellectuals.

Episode 6 looks at the influence of hip hop music and its intersection with phantom politics.

Episode 5: "The Transformation of the Black Working Class." This episode looks at how deindustrialization decimated black workers and turned them into the underclass.

Episode 4. "Phantom Politics" looks at the pseudo-political actions of Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan, Al Sharpton and faux political movements. This episode argues that the last fifty years of the post-civil rights era has been nothing but make-believe politics in which a crop of HNICs offered nothing but mass egotism masquerading as political mobilization.