From Baltimore to Los Angeles and from Texas to Ohio, over the last year shocking images of American police officers brutalising and killing black people have left the world in disbelief and sparked some of the worst civil disorder seen in America in decades. The released footage however has also galvanised a new generation of young activists demanding an end to police brutality.

The shooting of an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri last year (2014) lit a fire that is still raging in the hearts of African Americans so TV personality, Reggie Yates, decided to travel to the United States to see first hand what is really going and how these communities are affected.