'The 24th' — a World War I drama that captures one of the most tragic chapters in Jim Crow America, the Houston Riot of 1917 — opens Friday. The film depicts the aftermath of incidents of harassment and beatings by locals and Houston police officers during that era, and the all-Black Army infantry regiment that […]
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