As we enter the hottest months of the year — a time when, historically, crime numbers tend to spike — there’s grassroots work in Raleigh trying to offset that.
An educator for more than 40 years, Anthony Pope is one of the founders of The Men of Southeast Raleigh, a group of mostly older Black men dedicated to preserving their neighborhood’s history and to serving as mentors to its young men. Pope says much of that work starts with having strong male figures in the rapidly changing part of the city — and more pride for southeast Raleigh’s history.
“This was the hub of the Black community. If you go a couple of blocks down on Hargett Street, that’s where the Black Wall Street was,” Pope said…