“We're not trying to be crime heroes or anything like that,” Nilajah Alonzo, one of the leaders of New Era Detroit said. “We're just trying to educate and uplift our community.”
That leaves a wide swath of the city where residents feel they’ve been left behind.
“The Panthers were really focused on potential police violence toward people in the community,” the journalist Mark Whitaker, author of “Saying It Loud: 1966 — The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement,” told Yahoo News. “New Era are just as concerned about the danger that ordinary, law-abiding citizens in the inner city face from other Black folks who might do them harm. … So for young people to help protect other people in the community, I think it's wonderful to see.
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