J. Edgar Hoover, who was neither black nor (ostensibly) a criminal, is the subject of BET's newest installment of American Gangster. The engrossing docu-series, which, typically, addresses offenders like Frank Lucas, Melvin Williams (who helped inspire The Wire), and Philly's Black Mafia, digs deep to investigate the FBI director—and his unsettling war against the civil rights movement. Think beefs with MLK, alleged assassinations of black activists, and the creation of COINTELPRO, or "Counter Intelligence Program," the happily abolished, clumsily named agency that makes Gitmo look like a bed and breakfast. There's no video to embed, but BET's archives are worth the time spent. Watch them here.
10 p.m., BET