
The Holly
Five Bullets, One Gun, and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood
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Narrado por:
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Julian Rubinstein
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Larry Herron
An award-winning journalist’s dramatic account of a shooting that shook a community to its core, with important implications for the future
On the last Friday evening of the summer of 2013, five shots rang out in the parking lot of a new Boys & Girls Club in a part of northeast Denver known as the Holly. Long a destination for African American families fleeing the Jim Crow South, the Holly had become an “invisible city” within a historically white metropolis. While shootings weren’t uncommon, the identity of the shooter that night came as a shock. Terrance Roberts was a revered activist. His attempts to bring peace to his community had won the accolades of both his neighbors and the state’s most important power brokers. Why had he just fired a gun?
In The Holly, the award-winning journalist Julian Rubinstein, who grew up in Denver, reconstructs the events leading up to the fateful confrontation that left a local gang member paralyzed and Terrance Roberts on trial, facing a life in prison. Much more than the story of a shooting, The Holly is a multigenerational crime story that explores the porous boundaries between a city’s elites and its most disadvantaged citizens, as well as the fraught interactions of police, confidential informants, activists, gang members, and ex-gang members trying - or not - to put their pasts behind them. It shows how well-intentioned urban renewal may hasten gentrification, and what happens when overzealous policing collides with gang members who conceive of themselves as defenders, however imperfect, of a neighborhood.
In the era of Black Lives Matter and urgent debates about the future of policing, Rubinstein offers a nuanced and humane illumination of what’s at stake.
A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Vital chronicle of Denver history
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exceptional!
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Must read
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Powerful Journalism Daylights Invisible War
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Illuminating!
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Learn something new everyday
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Now more than ever we are faced with a period of time where this information coming to light details a much larger national issue mirrored in the story of the historic Northeast Park Hill neighborhood in Denver Colorado. As a Denver native I appreciate the accuracies and detail that went into the research of this book and see that this story is just one example of how the incestuous relationship between the federal government, policing strategies and surveillance strategies has led to the widespread and unethical employment of criminal informants and perpetuated generations of trauma in all urban black and brown neighborhoods alike
Anyone interested in learning about the undercurrent of urban trauma needs to read this book
Powerful testament and historical account
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Such a great story!
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Well done, Mr Rubinstein!
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Absolutely loved it!!
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