Univision Communications said it has formed Univision Story House, a new content and development unit based in Los Angeles that will create programming for Univision networks as well as external networks and platforms.

The new unit has signed a deal to create two ducumentary series that will appear on HBO: Outpost and Hate in America.

Story House is part of Univision’s Fusion Media Group and is being overseen by Camila Jimenez Villa, Fusion’s president and chief content officer. Producer-director Juan Rendon is the unit’s creative  director.

"There is a wealth of untold stories about Latin America and the cross-cultural experience in the United States,"  Rendón said. "The diversity of backgrounds and experiences that our experienced team embodies gives us the ability to tell those stories in the most authentic way."

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Investigation Discovery has scheduled for Monday, Feb. 23, a new one-hour special Hate In America, hosted by Al Jazeera America anchor Tony Harris, produced with The Southern Poverty Law Center and NBC News’s Peacock Productions.

The special, exploring violence inspired by intolerance, fear and hate, features the racially charged murder of a black father in Mississippi who died after being beaten and run over; the gruesome mass shooting of a Wisconsin Sikh congregation; and a brutal anti-gay attack on the streets of New York City. Harris hears from a spectrum of advocates for change, including victims’ loved ones, community leaders, civil rights attorneys, SPLC’s founder Morris Dees and even a former white supremacist who now crusades for unity among the races, ID said in a release.

According to the SPLC, more than 900 active hate groups currently exist across the United States, from neo-Nazis to anti-government militias, targeting entire classes of people for their race, religion, and sexuality, among other immutable characteristics. Largely propagated by anger and fear over the nation’s ailing economy and the diminishing white majority, that number has been on the rise for over a decade, ID said. Harris travels to communities torn apart by violence, and comes face to face with its victims, to reveal what drives modern-day hate, ID said.