He Was Told to Go Back to Africa. Instead, He May Go to the U.S. Senate.




Fearless, Adversarial Journalism – Spoken Edition show

Summary: A March 1995 headline in the Helena Independent Record, a Montana newspaper, lays it out starkly: “Black man told to go home — to Africa.” The article lists racist threats made against an unnamed “black political refugee from Liberia who has lived in Helena for about a year.” The subject of that article remained anonymous at the time,and he did not heed the suggestion.