6. Hero Americana: Part 2 - Reverend Pinkney & the Black Autonomy Network Community Organization (BANCO)

“We’ve allowed these corporations to take over and we’re suffering. In the city of Benton Harbor, the water bill tripled. Unemployment, I’m talking 70% of the people unemployed. 90% live below the poverty level.”

Part 2 highlights...

-Reverend Pinkney origin story and BANCO

-Benton Harbor deindustrialized by runaway shop policies

-Congressman Fred Upton and the Whirlpool Upton family

-St. Joseph Harbor Shores Land Speculation and Black Removal

-Police killing of African American men