This episode of @reelsouth is about Black men who played and worked the (mostly segregated) golf courses in the mid 20th c. South. It is touching. pbs.org/video/muni-lai…
You don't often see Black men of a certain age and class in media this way, not even in documentary media.
It isn't a "big" civil rights story. But it I like small, intimate stories of the Great Migration Generation. This is one of those.
The Black men in your lives, especially, might enjoy this.

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