Believable Podcast, Episode 4: The Gun in the Dark Backyard
Story by Narratively | July 17, 2019
Silvon was shot by the police outside his home, and woke up handcuffed to a chair, fighting for his life in more ways than one.
Silvon was shot by the police outside his home, and woke up handcuffed to a chair, fighting for his life in more ways than one.
Beyond the beautiful beaches and glitzy galas, Oak Bluffs is a complex community that elite families, working-class locals and social-climbing summerers all claim as their own.
As a scholarship student at a fancy private school, I gained entry to a world few Americans see: rich, privileged and black. I decided I wanted no part of it.
Ghana’s capital is home to a booming economy, a thriving tech scene, and a growing number of professionals who’ve decided to stop chasing the American dream.
Rev. Routté bluffed his way into first-class treatment in the Jim Crow-era south — unmasking the ridiculous hypocrisy of segregation.
When I went to prison I was black. By the time I got out 11 years later I was crazy, fascist and white.
After Silvon Simmons was shot by a police officer, he was the one charged with attempted murder. Now he’s piecing his life back together.
Cori Bush is a registered nurse, a pastor and a mom. After taking to the streets to protest police killings, she looked in the mirror and said, “why not politician, too?”
Block by block, cycle-bound activist Sabir Abdussabur fights injustice on the streets of New Haven, Connecticut.
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