'Black America': Amazon Creating Alt-History Drama With Will Packer, Aaron McGruder | THR News

Amazon is developing a series titled Black America, produced by Will Packer and Aaron McGruder. The series imagines a world where African Americans form a sovereign nation called New Colonia in the southern US states post-reconstruction. The narrative explores the nation's relationship with the US and its rise as an industrial power. The series was announced following criticism of HBO's Confederate, and it is set in an alternate universe similar to The Man in the High Castle.

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