Chicago Pastor Corey Brooks has been living and sleeping on top of a rooftop since November 2021, trying to raise $35 million to build a new South Side center, which would include a trade school, classrooms, restaurants, theater, gym and an Olympic-sized pool.
The Chicago Police Department says 797 people were killed in the city last year. That is 25 more people than in 2020 and 299 more than 2019. To change the narrative, Pastor Corey Brooks is camping out atop a building in Chicago's southside in the middle of winter. His goal is to create a state of the art community center where kids can learn, play, and thrive.
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Filmmaker Eli Steele on Tuesday published a piece for Fox News in which he further examines the global Black Lives Matter movement and its lack of impact on local black communities dealing with a variety of issues. In a conversation with Pastor Corey Brooks, who leads a church on the South Side of Chicago, they two discuss the reality that many well-meaning folks on the left are donating to an organization that does not do what they think it does while ignoring groups who have a genuine desire to affect positive change.
Steele writes:
After parking my car on King Drive, I entered the New Beginnings Church where Pastor Corey Brooks greeted me. I joked that I thought Black Lives Matter would see more support in this neighborhood, and he just smiled. Then I asked if his nonprofit, a community center called Project H.O.O.D., had received any of the $90 million that Black Lives Matter had raised since the death of George Floyd and he let out a drawn-out, “nooooo.”