With over 3.4 million views for Vice Media, Akil Gibbons hosts and produces this story on “The Slavery Detective of the South” meeting genealogist Antoinette Harrell, who tracks down cases of modern-day slavery and abusive labor practices. We talk to a man - Arthur Wall - whose family was held on a plantation against their will into the 1960s, and Antoinette explains how she uses decades-old records to uncover how slavery was perpetuated long after the Civil War ended into modern day.

According to a leaked FBI assessment, “Black Identity Extremists” are a new group of domestic terrorists who pose a serious and violent threat to American law enforcement. The assessment is based on unsubstantiated grouping of unrelated police shootings and has drawn much public scrutiny for its apparent advocacy of racial profiling.

Echoing the dark history of the FBI’s notorious CoINTELPRO operations during the civil-rights movement that targeted leaders like Martin Luther King Jr, The Black Panthers, and Malcolm X, we speak with Rakem Balogun and his organization Guerilla Mainframe that were targeted by the FBI under “Black Identity Extremist” assessments in Dallas.

Akil travels back home to his city of Atlanta in this Google sponsored series Streets by VICE to explore the history of the city and legacy of Ponce De Leon. He speaks with civil-rights leader Juanita Abernathy about organizing with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and how Atlanta served as the epicenter for the movement, the legendary Dungeon Family about how Atlanta became a pioneering force in Hip-Hop, and the father of Trap Music Zaytoven as to how Atlanta continues to dominate pop culture in America.

Akil dives into the world of future prosthetics, and the people working on closing the gap between man and machine through neuro-interfacing machinery built by The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military.

Akil spends a day with the Guardian Angels, a second-wave resurgence of the 70's vigilante crime fighting group that says it's back protecting the streets and subways of New York City after a series of slashings earlier this year. Founded in 1979, the Guardian Angels were supposed to be a counter to the muggings and assaults that back then were commonplace on the streets and subways.

On this episode of Daily VICE, I sit down with Ibtihaj Muhammad—the first Muslim woman to represent the US at the Olympics while wearing a hijab—and talk to the three-time NCAA all-American about living as a Muslim in America today.

Most people are introduced to forensic science through TV and film, and because of this we have come to see forensic techniques such as ballistics, footprint analysis, and bite mark identification as foolproof methods for solving crimes. But many forensic science techniques were not developed by scientists. They were developed in crime labs by law enforcement professionals who needed methods for testing available evidence. These techniques were often subjective, and not run through the same kind of rigorous testing of traditional science.

Akil travels to the notorious Pink-Houses in East New York to meet the filmmakers behind “Project Heat” leading the way in a new-wave of street cinema series growing in popularity online. The real-to-reel narrative is set one of the poorest and most dangerous housing development projects in the American financial capital, The preliminary episode of Project Heat is based on the 2014 murder of Akai Gurley by a New York Police Department officer in the Pink Houses.

On this episode of Daily VICE, we meet up with Frederick Hutson, an ex-con and the founder of the Pigeonly app. His startup allows inmates to send and receive photos from their families and stay connected to the outside world. Before Frederick was incarcerated he served in the U.S. airforce and was honorably discharged in 2005 after the base began downsizing, and eventually turned his business efforts to sending marijuana through the parcel companies.

Akil travels to Las Vegas to meet two-time Olympian Connor Fields just before he flies to compete in the Olympic Games in Rio. We talk about the importance of having BMX racing in the Olympics, what happened at the London games, and how a shattered wrist isn't going to keep him off the podium.

Akil heads to the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York, which houses one of the only theaters in the country that's able to show movies on highly flammable nitrate film. We talk with some of the film buffs at the museum's Nitrate Picture Show about the cinematic experience of seeing a classic movie on the dangerous medium.