As a child growing up in the segregated environment of Nashville, Tennessee, Travis Adkins had questions. He wondered about how his community was being policed, for example. He was also baffled by images of Africa in the media beamed back to him in America. It was a lot of sickness and disease and warfare and corruption.
Adkins went to his mom and asked: Why was this happening to us?
“I don't know all the answers,” Adkins remembers her telling him. “‘But I can tell you that we've had challenges here in America ever since we arrived from Africa.”