New York Times op-docs series
A Conversation On Race, this digital series of shorts from Michèle Stephenson and Joe Brewster reexamines and expands upon those original films through three specific lenses.
For Our Girls: Conversations With Black Women explores “the vital role Black women have played in the social justice movements while having their own plights denied and ignored.
Learning to Breathe: Conversations With Young Black Men, a sequel to 2015’s
Growing Up Black, asks the subjects of the earlier film to “reflect upon their naiveté, their morphing ideas on equity and their growing commitment to ensuring a re-imagined American future.”
Patrick “P.T.” Ngwolo, an elder at the inner-city Christian mission Resurrection Houston, may have put it best when he said Mr. Floyd, who stood somewhere between 6 feet, 4 inches and 6 feet, 7 inches was “larger than life.”
“Mr. Floyd was a person who was what we call in the neighborhood an OG, somebody who had been through the wars, who had made the mistakes and who was able to go back to a generation and say, ‘Hey, guys, this is the way you ought to move, this is how you ought to do it,’” Mr. Ngwolo told Fox News.
He said Floyd used his status as an “OG,” or “original gangster,” to help the church make inroads in the Cuney Homes public housing complex, also known as “the Bricks,” by reaching out to neighbors, participating in basketball tournaments and setting up chairs and tables for services every fifth Sunday.