THE INVOICE is a nonfiction streaming series that confronts the relationship between black and white Americans — the money part.

Across six 50-minute episodes, the series exposes the American government’s long record of extracting wealth, opportunity, health, and dignity from black citizens. These hidden histories — rarely, if ever, taught in schools or discussed in public life — reveal how theft from black America became a defining feature of the nation’s growth.

In this light, reparations are neither a gift nor a hand out. Reparations will be a negotiated settlement of a centuries-old debt — financial compensation, estimated at $16-20 trillion, for the deliberate, systemic predation that has devastated millions of black lives across generations.

THE INVOICE brings together historians, economists, and educators to break down that number, tracing how wealth was stripped away through slavery, legal segregation, redlining, mass incarceration, and ongoing discrimination in nearly every arena of life.

Stylistically, the series feels like a gathering at a virtual campfire — where extraordinary scholars, authors, musicians, actors, and comedians sit together to present – from black and white perspectives – stories that will enable viewers to fully appreciate the magnitude of the plunder of black America.

Each episode blends eight elements — interviews, dramatizations, narration, historical footage, animation, comedy, music, and art — to provoke, disarm, entertain, and inspire.