• Minneapolis Star Tribune, Wednesday, March 8, 2017 9:01 AM

Long before Donald Trump's win, issue-heavy TV shows were on the rise. ABC's  “When We Rise” is a tribute to San Francisco’s gay equality movement. This month, Fox will devote 10 hours of prime-time to “Shots Fired,” a star-studded drama that reflects the country’s racial tensions through a fictional police-involved shooting.

Also on the docket: a third season of ABC’s “American Crime” that tackles class conflict in North Carolina; Showtime’s “Guerrilla,” a miniseries about attempts to crush the black-power movement in 1970s England  and Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” set in a totalitarian theocracy where women are stripped of basic human rights.

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