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Updated December 30, 2020, 3:00 p.m.
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Two â80s documentaries
The People Unitedâ (1985) and
Hugh King and Lamar Williamsâs â
Black and Blueâ (1987) â show how little progress has been made in race relations in the past four decades in the United States, especially when it comes to the police.
Speightâs film serves as a vital artifact of a period many Bostonians would like to forget â the turmoil of the â70s during court-ordered desegregation, when scenes not unlike Birmingham, Ala., in 1963 were splashed on newspaper front pages and the police used a heavy hand in subduing the Black population of the city. That community suffered not just from police abuse but police neglect. Speight focuses much of the film on the murders of 11 Black women (and one white woman) that took place in the city in the first five months of 1979. Investigating these crim