DEAR WHITE PEOPLE is set on a fictional Ivy League college campus where racism is felt by the minority students and ignored by others. The series' main character is a student named Samantha (Logan Browning) who's a campus radio personality and the leader of an African American student group. Samantha's radio show, Dear White People, gets backlash from the popular student satirical publication Pastiche (think Harvard's Lampoon), so she sets out to expose the racism in Pastiche's ranks. When it's found out that she broke into Pastiche's Facebook account to send a blackface party invitation—and that she has a "secret White bae"—Samantha is caught in the middle of her political, social, and personal worlds. She and fellow students Troy Fairbanks (Brandon P. Bell), Lionel Higgins (DeRon Horton), Coco Conners (Antionette Robinson), and Gabe Mitchell (John Patrick Amedori) must figure out how to navigate the backlash—and how to use their voices on campus to effect positive change.