Before the city of Memphis released videos of police fatally beating Tyre Nichols on Friday, Atlanta mayor Andre Dickens joined leaders from cities and states across the country condemning the officers’ actions.
The South is strung together by paved highways and a barbed history, spicy food and rich culture, and a recentEach wave of newcomers also frays lines to the region’s past.should’ve been in North Carolina
on April 4, 1968, the day he died, but canceled his trip to stay in Memphis for a sanitation workers’ strike. And in more immediate history, consider the path of Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn Davis: She was born into a military family in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, spent two decades as a police officer in Atlanta, and was later police chief in Durham, North Carolina, before moving to Memphis.As I watched the videos from Memphis, I couldn’t help but think of an exhibit at thein Montgomery, Alabama.
The jars reveal the richness of this Southern earth: deep and dark brown dirt from Selma, red clay from the Piedmont, lighter shades of sand from the coastal plain.And now in many ways — from policing to political power to affordable housing strategies — it's likely the land of a region that will define the country's future.
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