The Atlantic
What the demise of an experimental Black town reveals about the struggle for racial equality today
February 16, 2021
Greg Allikas
Visit Soul City, North Carolina, today, and you won’t find much: an abandoned health-care clinic stripped by vandals; a pool and recreation center with a no trespassing sign; a 1970s subdivision with streets that are cracked and crumbling; and an industrial plant that has been converted into a prison. If not for the concrete monolith with the words Soul City cast in red iron, you might not know this was supposed to be a city at all.
But that’s what the civil-rights leader Floyd McKissick hoped to create when he arrived here in 1969 with dreams of transforming an old slave plantation into a new city an hour north of Raleigh. The city would be dedicated to Black economic empowerment, McKissick envisioned, bringing money and opportunity to an area left behind by the modern economy and reversing the exodus of Black people to the northern
The Atlantic
Judas and the Black Messiah
The new crime thriller about a magnetic leader of the Black Panther Party is a sharp criticism of the FBI’s surveillance of social movements past and present.
February 13, 2021
When Black groups agitate for better living conditions and an end to systemic racism and police brutality, they are quickly labeled a threat to national security.Warner Bros.
“The Black Panthers are the single greatest threat to our national security. Our counterintelligence program must prevent the rise of a Black messiah from among their midst.” And so begins
Judas and the Black Messiah, with an ominous speech from the FBI director J. Edgar Hoover (played by Martin Sheen) in 1968. The film, which debuted yesterday in theaters and on HBO Max, is part crime thriller, part civil-rights historical drama. It tells the story of the rise of the Black Panther Party’s deputy chairman, Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya), and the informant who helped the FBI orchestrat
Been saying this for a long time : LMPD review says Black residents treated disproportionately Share Updated: 11:09 PM EST Jan 29, 2021 Share Updated: 11:09 PM EST Jan 29, 2021
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Show Transcript BLACK COMMUNITY. REPORTER SEVERAL BLACK LEADERS IN LOUISVILLE, AFTER SEEING THE REVIEW IT REAFFIRMS WHAT THEY ALREADY KNEW AND IT IS WHY THEY TOOK TO THE STREETS DEMANDING CHANGE. AFTER THE CITY OF LOUISVILLE HIRED A CHICAGO FIRM TO CONDUCT A TOP-TO-BOTTOM REVIEW OF LMPD, THE FIRM’S FINDINGS INCLUDE A LACK OF COMMUNITY TRUST, LOW MORALE AMONG OFFICERS, AND RACIAL DISPARITIES IN TRAFFIC STOPS AND ARRESTS. A REVIEW THAT COST TAX PAYER NEARLY $200,000. IT COULD HAVE WENT SOMEWHERE ELSE. THEY COULD HAVE GIVEN THAT TO ME. I COULD HAVE DONE THAT IN THE CITY AND COME UP WITH THE SAME RESULTS. REPORTER: ACCORDING TO PASTOR TIM FINDLEY JR., A WELL KNOWN ACTIVIST, MOST OF THIS REPORT OUTLINES ISSUES WITH LMPD TH HE AND HUNDREDS OF OTHERS HAVE B
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