Organizers say the screening is also a call to action, encouraging Chicago-area residents to help elevate Mound Bayou’s story within the broader national narrative and in Hollywood portrayals of Black history. #documentary #blackhistory #premiere
When President Trump commuted the federal drugs and extortion sentence of the 74-year-old Hoover, McCoy and Bradley called on Pritzker to do the “righteous thing” and grant the pardon. #pardon
In 1987 after Former Mayor Harold Washington's death, a group of Black, Brown, White (Lake Front Progressive) Aldermen and activists including former Ald. Garcia, pushed for a Special Election to unseat a Black Mayor... #gator #lightfoot4chicago
Wallace Gator Bradley mentions Bob Israel, Mark Carter, and local Black Republican Leader Paul McKinley as being the men behind the election of Governor Rauner.