This main title took inspiration from the collages of Harlem-based artist Romare Bearden to paint a vibrant, sprawling picture of life and crime at the height of the Civil Rights Movement. His art felt appropriate to the show because it was contemporaneous to the show's time and setting, 1960s Harlem, and shared themes and portrayals of social inequality and the African-American experience that the show similarly explores.

I loved the tactile and tangible texture of his Romare Bearden’s collages as well as its ability to present and juxtapose different subjects from multiple sources within a single composition.​​​​​​​"The cutting, fragmenting, and reconstruction involved in creating a collage provides apt metaphors for the trauma and violence of war and political oppression, the evisceration of the states quo, and the piecing together of new societal forms" (Rachael DeLue).