Paint It Black is in response to the corporate media's portrayal of anarchists since the anti-corporate globalization protests captured media attention during the demonstrations against the World Trade Organization in Seattle in November of 1999. The video examines KCOP's newscast, "The Anarchists in LA?" which aired two months before the Democratic National Convention and the protests against it were to convene in Los Angeles. It shows how the KCOP newscast racialized anarchists as Black via racist constructions of Blackness rooted in 19th century theories of Social Darwinism. Paint It Black also addresses the anarchist use of black to represent a movement that is white dominated. This video asks what it means for a revolutionary movement that is not fundamentally concerned with Black liberation to represent itself through the colour black in a country where racial stratification continues.