{"id":3287,"date":"2024-09-17T11:42:24","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T11:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthynewsusa.com\/?p=3287"},"modified":"2024-09-17T11:42:28","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T11:42:28","slug":"watch-new-documentary-film-explores-a-lynching-and-a-police-killing-78-years-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthynewsusa.com\/?p=3287","title":{"rendered":"Watch: New Documentary Film Explores a Lynching and a Police Killing 78 Years Apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"republish-content\">\n\t<span class=\"byline\">Cara Anthony<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In 1942, a young Black man named Cleo Wright was removed from a Sikeston, Missouri, jail and lynched by a white mob.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 80 years later, another young Black man, Denzel Taylor, was shot at least 18 times by police in the same small community.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the hourlong \u201cSilence in Sikeston\u201d documentary film broadcast on <a href=\"https:\/\/worldchannel.org\/episode\/local-usa-silence-in-sikeston\/\">WORLD\u2019s \u201cLocal, USA,\u201d<\/a> KFF Health News and <a href=\"https:\/\/retroreport.org\/articles\/retro-report-and-world-to-premiere-silence-in-sikeston\/\">Retro Report<\/a> explore how the impact of these men\u2019s killings tells a story about trauma and racism, but also resilience and healing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Stemming from a reporting trip by KFF Health News Midwest correspondent <a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/author\/cara-anthony\/\">Cara Anthony<\/a> in 2020, this film takes the audience to Indiana, Alabama, and where it all began in the southeastern corner of Missouri known as the Bootheel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wright\u2019s lynching put this rural community on a world stage and led to the first federal attempt to prosecute a lynching. But no one was held accountable. The killing was quickly hushed among locals, and his name was largely forgotten. When Taylor was shot by police in 2020 \u2014a year when protests about police brutality rocked the nation \u2014 his killing drew little attention.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The film breaks the silence and shares the stories of these men\u2019s families, community members, and police to uncover the consequences of this trauma on Sikeston. A <a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/podcast\/racism-can-make-you-sick\/\">limited-series podcast<\/a> exploring the health effects of racial violence and <a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/silence-in-sikeston-racial-trauma-black-families\/\">articles<\/a> are also part of <a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/silence-in-sikeston\/\">this journalism collaboration<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing quiet isn\u2019t the answer,\u201d Michael Snider, Cleo Wright\u2019s great-grandson, told the filmmakers.<\/p>\n<h2>Credits<\/h2>\n<h3>KFF Health News<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Producer and reporter:<\/strong> Cara Anthony<strong>Editors:<\/strong> Taunya English, Kytja Weir<strong>Copy editors:<\/strong> Terry Byrne, Gabe Brison-Trezise<strong>Web producers:<\/strong> Lynne Shallcross, Oona Zenda, Lydia Zuraw<strong>Photographer:<\/strong> Michael B. Thomas<strong>Social media producers:<\/strong> Tarena Lofton, Hannah Norman<\/p>\n<h3>Retro Report<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Director:<\/strong> Jill Rosenbaum<strong>Writer:<\/strong> Jill Rosenbaum<strong>Editors:<\/strong> Cheree Dillon, Brian Kamerzel<strong>Senior producer:<\/strong> Karen M. Sughrue<strong>Executive producer:<\/strong> Kyra Darnton<\/p>\n<h3>WORLD<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Host:<\/strong> Tina M. McDuffie<strong>Producer and editor:<\/strong> Hannah Paul<strong>Digital producer:<\/strong> Sharon Wong<strong>Editor:<\/strong> Jill Poisson, Cecilia Pr\u00e9stamo<strong>Assistant editor:<\/strong> Abhi Indrekar<strong>Digital associate producer: <\/strong>Brigitte McIndoe<strong>Post-production assistant:<\/strong> Jenny Tan<strong>Senior editorial adviser:<\/strong> Judith Vecchione<strong>Project manager, acquisition and distribution:<\/strong> Georgiana Lee<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/about-us\">KFF Health News<\/a> is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF\u2014an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/about-us\/\">KFF<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>USE OUR CONTENT<\/h3>\n<p>This story can be republished for free (<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/going-it-alone-americans-aging-by-themselves-support-networks-children\/view\/republish\/\">details<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>We encourage organizations to republish our content, free of charge. Here\u2019s what we ask:<\/p>\n<p>You must credit us as the original publisher, with a hyperlink to our kffhealthnews.org site. If possible, please include the original author(s) and KFF Health News\u201d in the byline. Please preserve the hyperlinks in the story.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s important to note, not everything on kffhealthnews.org is available for republishing. If a story is labeled \u201cAll Rights Reserved,\u201d we cannot grant permission to republish that item.<\/p>\n<p>Have questions? Let us know at <a href=\"mailto:KHNHelp@kff.org\">KHNHelp@kff.org<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cara Anthony In 1942, a young Black man named Cleo Wright was removed from a Sikeston, Missouri, jail and lynched by a white mob. 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