Watch: New Documentary Film Explores a Lynching and a Police Killing 78 Years Apart
Health News tamfitronics In 1942, a young Black man named Cleo Wright was removed from a Sikeston, Missouri, jail and lynched by a white mob.Nearly 80 years later, another young Black man, Denzel Taylor, was shot at least 18 times by police in the same small community.In the hourlong “Silence in Sikeston” documentary film broadcast on WORLD’s “Local, USA,” KFF Health News and Retro Report explore how the impact of these men’s killings tells a story about trauma and racism, but also resilience and healing.Stemming from a reporting trip by KFF Health News Midwest correspondent Cara Anthony 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.Wright’s lynching...
