More than four decades after the civil rights movement began, Americans are still treated as suspects because of the color of their skin. "Racial Profiling" features people who took action to combat police misconduct after they were pulled over and assaulted by state troopers for "DWB" (Driving While Black or Brown). Hip-hop artist M-1 and members of his group, dead prez, tell how they were attacked by police and jailed for days without charges being brought. This episode also shows how South Asian immigrants who came to this country to pursue the American dream lost everything because of post-Sept. 11 profiling.

"Beyond the Patriot Act" tells how misguided law and other government overreactions to Sept. 11 are restricting our most basic constitutional freedoms and threatening America's system of checks and balances. This episode features people like Patricia David, whose husband was secretly deported to Pakistan after Sept. 11, and Abdulameer Habeeb, a political refugee who was tortured by Saddam Hussein and found himself imprisoned in America without cause.