Cara Anthony
In 1942, a younger Black man named Cleo Wright was faraway from a Sikeston, Missouri, jail and lynched by a white mob.
Nearly 80 years later, one other younger Black man, Denzel Taylor, was shot no less than 18 occasions by police in the identical small group.
In the hourlong “Silence in Sikeston” documentary movie broadcast on WORLD’s “Local, USA,” KFF Health News and Retro Report discover how the influence of those males’s killings tells a narrative about trauma and racism, but in addition resilience and therapeutic.
Stemming from a reporting journey by KFF Health News Midwest correspondent Cara Anthony in 2020, this movie takes the viewers to Indiana, Alabama, and the place all of it started within the southeastern nook of Missouri often known as the Bootheel.
Wright’s lynching put this rural group on a world stage and led to the primary federal try to prosecute a lynching. But nobody was held accountable. The killing was rapidly hushed amongst locals, and his identify was largely forgotten. When Taylor was shot by police in 2020 —a 12 months when protests about police brutality rocked the nation — his killing drew little consideration.
The movie breaks the silence and shares the tales of those males’s households, group members, and police to uncover the implications of this trauma on Sikeston. A limited-series podcast exploring the well being results of racial violence and articles are additionally a part of this journalism collaboration.
“Being quiet isn’t the answer,” Michael Snider, Cleo Wright’s great-grandson, advised the filmmakers.
Credits
KFF Health News
Producer and reporter: Cara AnthonyEditors: Taunya English, Kytja WeirCopy editors: Terry Byrne, Gabe Brison-TreziseWeb producers: Lynne Shallcross, Oona Zenda, Lydia ZurawPhotographer: Michael B. ThomasSocial media producers: Tarena Lofton, Hannah Norman
Retro Report
Director: Jill RosenbaumWriter: Jill RosenbaumEditors: Cheree Dillon, Brian KamerzelSenior producer: Karen M. SughrueExecutive producer: Kyra Darnton
WORLD
Host: Tina M. McDuffieProducer and editor: Hannah PaulDigital producer: Sharon WongEditor: Jill Poisson, Cecilia PréstamoAssistant editor: Abhi IndrekarDigital affiliate producer: Brigitte McIndoePost-production assistant: Jenny TanSenior editorial adviser: Judith VecchioneProject supervisor, acquisition and distribution: Georgiana Lee
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