The show is a Snap Original and is produced by Snapchat, NBCUniversal, Indigo Development and Entertainment Arts, and Main Event Media.
Vibe magazine wrote that While Black with MK Asante "explores what it means to be young, gifted and black through the lens of several young men and women who are making a radical change within themselves and their communities".
Black Entertainment Television wrote that "by concentrating on matters most relevant to people of color right now, the Snapchat series explores everything from criminalizing children to Black Lives Matter to the N-word".
One of my chief complaints about these things [smartphones] is that it's created an entire generation of news grazers; people who just read the headlines.
But what he does in his Snapchat show is takes difficult topics to get your head around, and he digs into them, and covers all the angles.