(car hns honking) (people talking in background) (people talking in background, car horns honking) sabrina webb: and it just so happened to be canfield. (people talking in background) we lived in canfield, and it was just simply a phone call. it was one of my roommates. and she was hysterical. she was crying, she was upset, she was scared.

and she said, "i believe i just watched somebody get killed in front of our apartment." ma let me ll you why this is importan they got over police gs in here. they put them on us because they don't understand that we're grieving. woman: yes... webb: not even knowing that it was a relative of mine, i dropped the phone. man: we want you to exactly what the mother and exactly what t father's shes are to supporthem. we don't need you burning nothing. we don't need you to come up th no brightdeas right now. if you do exactly what we're saying, and you're unified like what we're doing, i promise you we won't have no problems. - by tomorrow at 10:00, we going back around to ferguson. and we want to do it just like this, with our hands up, no violence. - no violence. - just positivity for mike mike. for mike mike.

i need y'all with me. so we got to do it the right way. webb: and i'm standing there and i'm just looking at this guy on the ground, and i'm, like... you know when you realize that you know somebody, but you don't want to accept the fact that this may be the person that you know. so, when i heard his name, i'm, like, "nah." man: people came down here to mourn the death of mike brown. protesters: put your hands up! man: iant yourands althe way ! woman: yeah. man: when he got assassinated.

woman: yeah. man: when he got executed. this how he was. protesters (chanting): enough is enough! (chanting): no more! no more! man: everybody get your hands up, get your hands up! man: okay, now, we are a peaceful demonstration. and we letting them know that we are civilized, and we are unified. and enough is enough! protesters (shouting): enough is enough! man: no justice, no peace! (lawnmower running)

boyd: well, there were so many things that happened when you were growing up black. and if you were to drive around that community during the time when i was a kid, and even as an adult, there was that, um, street that we were talking about that did not run through from kinloch that should have, you know. when you look at that barricade, it made you feel that, "they think i'm inferior," you know. and i don't like that, it makes me uncomfortable, and why should it be? and then if you were to leave that area, and just drive up mable street, where the vernon school was located, and see how that was segregated.

and then if you were to continue around to courtney avenue, which was in the city of kinloch, but on one side of the street was kinloch and the other side of the street was berkeley. and all along that area, there were fences there. and it ran along the north boundary of kinloch. gunther: i honestly only surmise whether hedgerow was here naturally or if it was intentionally planted. i do not have personal knowledge of exactly why. it is here, it is along the fenceline, it is along the border. i can only guess.

boyd: those houses were built so that their backyards were to the city of kinloch. and so, the isolation was intentional... and it just, i believe, preyed on people... who hadn't done anything to deserve it. newsreel announcer: and 5,000 paratroopers reinforce the national guard, state and city police. the city's industry and business are severely affected. (dramatic music playing in film) a besieged city of guerrilla warfare. sniper groups use day-annight hit-and-run taics, fore tanks move in to curb their window and. wreckages everywre. malcolm x: no man can speak for negroes

and tell negroes love their enemy. no man can speak for negroes and tell negroes, "turn the other cheek." and tell negroes, "love, suffer peacefully." there is no negro in his right mind today who going tturn thother cheek. (audience applding d cheeng) man: i le it! man: friday freedom flicks. woman: i can't hear you. man: the whole goal is to... so wcan watch some politicalilms, educate the community, bring everybody together, then have some dialogue about what we watched, what we learned, how we can incorporate it with the stuff that we going through today. so at this point, i'm going to turn it over to my bro tef poe. tef poe: can anybody identify... child: mommy! tef poe: some of the prime targets from the bck liberion movement who was the fbi prarily concerned th taking out, according to the movie?

woman: according to the movie, they was concerned with taking out the black panthers. - ding, ding, ding, for 500-- if i had prizes... (woman laughing) but i don't. you got a whole bunch of black folks with guns and educated, giving food back, where literally, we're still living off the wic program. woman: right, that they created. - and we modeling things off that same program, you know what i'm saying? right now today, you know what i'm saying? so, given that, you know, you always gotta take into context how they don't, you... niggas with guns is a problem, you know what i'm saying? you don't need niggas with guns teaching people and feeding people at the same time. woman: right, because they thinking about... - so you have to take out the black panthers. we do this program in the same spirit in which they did the original books and breakfast. you know what i mean? and i put it last, because after we get through discussing all of these problems, we got to get to the point where we have some solutions. this ain't the end-all-be-all, but we feel that this is one of the things that intersects between these kids, and young adults, before the streets get them, before the police get them, before the system get them,

we got to get them, so that's what this is about. (footsteps padding, birds chirping) (crickets chirping) (birds chirping) boyd: the airport. it was such a nuisance, and it was really prime location for anybody who wanted to use that property commercially.

and eventually, that is what happened. the airport buyout came about and so many people moved away. i guess you've driven through there since most of the houses have been torn down. it just no longer was a viable community. joseph spears: over the years, this became what they call the crash zone for the airport. gillooly: so that's why they wanted to buy it up? so they had... clea tuckson: that's why they did buy it up. gillooly: okay. tuckson: oh, yeah, they own the airport, they own all this, too. the city of st. louis owns kinloch, in a sense. will: that just, that decimated the town, you know? it just, it killed everything. and they really didn't use all the land, they just... you know, the population went from, like... i want to say it was about 10,000 people, all the way to, like, 200 or 300.

and it's never been the same. joseph wells: i was mayor when they first started buying it out. all the damage was done, you know. you didn't have nowhere to expand, so you was locked in, and that kills any city. it don't make no difference who it is or what city it is. you don't have no extra land and you're locked in all around, ferguson on one side and berkeley on three sides, you know. so kinloch was doomed from the beginning, but... 25 or 30 years ago, when i was the mayor, they had already designated kinloch to be cleared out for the airport. (airplane passing overhead)

(airplane passing overhead) boyd (dramatized): at this point, we could begin the difficult task of restoring each man to a level of human dignity. within a generation, all traces of the nightmare could become no more than a matter of history. alas, i've been daydreaming. as i awake from the dream, my heart begins to bleed again, for in my heart, i know that too few will try. so what do we say to the rioters? boyd: you know, if i seem to be dancing around the question,

i just don't know how to deal with it any other way. it's, it's something that i've been affected by all my life, my friends and family members the same, and i think that is what was going on during the time that i worked in the city of kinloch. it was with me when i was in school, it's with me now, it's with me as i listen to the politics of what goes on in the united states, and... what are we waiting for? why can't we straighten this thing out? boyd (dramatized): i don't really know how to end this letter. i do thank you and the zion congregation for your hospitality and pray that god may bless you.

sincerely, julia boyd, coordinator. girl (on recording): "fourscore and seven years ago, "our father brought forth upon this continent a new nation, "conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition "that all men are created equal. "now we are engaged "in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, "or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, "can long endure. "we are met on a great battlefield of that war. "we have come to dedicate a portion of that field "as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives "that that nation might live. "it is altogether fitting and proper "that we should do this. "but in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, "we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. "the brave men, living and dead, who struggled here

"have consecrated it far above our poor power "to add or detra. "the world will little note nor long remember "what they say here, "but it can never forget what they did here. "it is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here "to e unfinished work which they who brought here "have thus far so nobly advanced. "it is rather for us to be here dediced o the great task remaining before us, "that from these honored dead, we take increased devotion "to that cause for which they gave "the last full measure of devotion, "that we here high resol that tse dead shall not have died in vain..." (airplane roaring overhead, drowns out recording) girl (on recording): "...shall not perish from the earth."

conrad smith: kinloch is an all-black politically independent city located in suburban st. louis county approximately seven miles northwest of st. louis city limits. alough the city surround byhe predomintly white community of berkeley and ferguson, it is sharply separated from it... petty: he built the junior high, that was the city hall. he built smith school. everything basically was brick around here... brawley: there were some things that are very controversial, and one of them was a street that had always been closed. boyd: one thing that i remember is that we were angry, and today people are angry. there are a lot of things... (archival): this picture was taken from the ferguson side, the sign says "pavement end." williams (present-day): nobody ever gave us any official information as to why that barricade... (archival): took the name off of the sign but the real estate people wouldn't call us back. hesburgh: the united states commission on civil rights is an agency of the united states government. its duties are to study and collect information...

squires: we got what we wanted, which was the freedom and ability to go places and buy homes. but we lost what we had. amanda smith: they didn't want us coming over there, but we went anyway. joseph wells: we didn't have nowhere to expand, so you were locked in, ferguson on one side and berkeley on three sides. will: my kids, i bathe them in blackness, because once you walk out that door, you're dealing with white supremacy. in the home, you have to bathe them... wright: which neighborhoods are going to be black, which neighborhoods are going to remain white. whitt: they're still in denial because they don't encounter the same type of police that we do. selter: we never talked about the hard stuff, and it's the hard stuff that's coming out now. carter: this brown thing, that stuff's been boiling for years and years and years and years. gunther: i honestly only surmise whether it was here naturally or if it was intentionally... o'guin: with the segregation in the county, we was forced to build houses in kinloch. harry: i'm heartbroken for the parents of the child that died yesterday, i'm heartbroken for my community, i'm heartbroken for my city.

cookson: there was some sort of divide, wasn't there? dispatcher 2: it's going to be a black male in a white t-shirt. he took a whole box of swisher cigars. johnson (dramatized): we was in the middle of the street on the double yellow lines, and now we're walking east towards both our home, 'cause... webb: not even knowing that it was a relative of mine, i dropped the phone. spears: this became what they called the crash zone for the airport. tuckson: that's why they did buy it up. the city of st. louis owns kinloch, in a sense. boyd (dramatized): i bleed too easily, and this is my sickness. it is better to bleed than to have the sickness of those who inflict the wound. tef poe: we feel that this is one of the things that intersects between these kids and young adults, before the streets get them, before the police get them, before the system get them... fannie wells: it's gonna be a battle, mm-hmm. ♪

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♪ ♪ in 2015, i started hearing about th natural gas pipeline that was going to be built in west roxbury. nothing this big had ever been built in a densely populated neighborhood. now i'd already signed petitions against pipelines in other parts of the country, and now there was one coming in my own backyard. but i didn't get involved right away. see, even though it was in a residential neighborhood, near my church, with two schools, plus a senior center,

and even though it was across the street from a quarry... now, i'm not an engineer, but i think it doesn't take more than common sense to know that highly flammable stuff, and a place where they blow up things are a bad combination. all of these things were clear. this was a terrible idea. but there was one challenge. see, i grew up in roxbury, predominantly black neighborhood, where we feel like too often we get dumped . and this pipine was going to be built in west roxbury, a predominantly white neighborhood, very well connected. i figured, i'm working so much on stuff in my own neighborhood, they got this, they'll handle it. everybody will come to their aid. but the pipeline kept being built. and finally some friends asked me to come to a rally, so i showed up. and next thing i kne

i was in west roxbury almost every week. people were coming out, they were standing in front of the trucks, stopping the construction, and i supported them. but in terms of getting arrested, i held back. i figured, does the world really need another black person to go to prison? so, finally i got an email from a friend. it talked about how in pakistan, the summer before, 1,300 people had died because of heatwaves-- so many people that grave diggers were starting to dig ditches in anticipation of summer. and the ditches in pakistan looked eerily similar to the ditch in west roxbury. so we decided to have an action to call attention to this, and to mourn all the people who were losing their lives because of climate change. we chose a date, june 29th, my birthday.

my birthday's complicated. it's a day i celebrate, but it's also a day that i mourn. anyway, the day came, i was in all black in my full clerical gear, and there was a lot of sun. so, we had a prar service, but we kept it short. and then we jumped in the ditch. standing there, in the ditch, waiting to get arrested. and i started to think about what i usually thinkbout on my birthday. see, june 29th is not just the day i was born. it's also the day kareem died. in 2005, i was running a youth arts program to teach young people how to take their art and talk about social justice issues. and kareem was one of our young artists. he was charismatic, and really committed, and all of the young people really followed his lead.

but on june 29, 2005, i woke up on my birthday to a call from a colleague, telling me that kareem had been shot and killed in the early hours of the morning a few miles from my house. he had wanted to turn his life around. but some folks just wouldn't let him move beyond the life of his past. and so standing in this ditch as the only person of color in a privileged part of the city, i felt like i needed to say something about kareem. that we shouldn't just fighting for people dying in pakistan, or even in west roxbury, if we couldn't honor the lives of young people who were dying because of even less futuristic things than climate change. so i started talking. first to the people next to me, then loud enough that the police could hear. and then when i was done, people clapped and thanked me for sharing about kareem's life.

as i got arrested and carted away, they cheered and said my name and his name. i ended up in a jail cell with a 70-something-year-old activist in a tie dye shirt and birkenstocks from the suburbs. (chuckling) she talked about all of the different issues she had been working on over her whole life. and as we waited for the bail bondsman, we started to question how could we build this world where we wouldn't sacrifice people in pakistan or in roxbury? finally, i got bailed out, my family picked me up, and they took me to the beach for, you know, watching the beach, sunset on my birthday. and as i looked out over the waves, i realized that that day, i built a little bit of a bridge between two opposing neighborhoods. and maybe i'd made a small dent in helping us see the connection

so, in the end, june 29th, it's not just the day i was born, it's not just the day kareem died. it's also a day where i stood up for something i believe in. thank you. (cheers and applause)

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