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Responding to pressure from on high, the Atlanta Police Department is forced to hire its first black officers. It's a victory of sorts, though the newly minted policemen are met with deep hostility by their white peers, and their authority is limited: They can't arrest a suspect unless a white officer is present; they can't drive squad cars; they can't even enter the station through the front door.

Reporter Anne Lemire writes the Rumor Clinic, a newspaper column that disproves the many harmful rumors floating around town, some of them spread by Axis spies and others just gossip mixed with fear and ignorance. Tired of chasing silly rumors about Rosie Riveters' safety on the job, she wants to write about something bigger. Special Agent Devon Mulvey, one of the few Catholics at the FBI, spends his weekdays preventing industrial sabotage and his Sundays spying on clerics with suspect loyalties—and he spends his evenings wooing the many lonely women whose husbands are off at war.

Officer Denny Rakestraw and “Negro Officers” Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith have their hands full in an overcrowded and rapidly changing Atlanta. It’s 1950 and racial tensions are simmering as black families, including Smith’s sister, begin moving into formerly all-white neighborhoods. When Rake’s brother-in-law launches a scheme to rally the Ku Klux Klan to “save” their neighborhood, his efforts spiral out of control, forcing Rake to choose between loyalty to family or the law.

Seven years ago, everyone in the world went blind in a matter of months. Technology helped people adjust to the new normal, creating a device that approximates vision, downloading visual data directly to people’s brains. But what happens when someone finds a way to hack it and change what people see? Homicide detective Mark Owens has been on the force since before The Blinding. When a scientist is murdered, and the only witness insists the killer was blacked out of her vision, Owens doesn’t believe her—until a similar murder happens in front of him.

Late one night in August 1934, following a yearlong spree of bank robberies across the Midwest, Jason and Whit Fireson are forced into a police shootout and die for the first time. Now it appears that the bank robbers known as the Firefly Brothers by an admiring public have at last met their end in a hail of bullets.

Atlanta 1956: In der pulsierenden Südstaatenhauptstadt verschärfen sich die Rassenkonflikte, als die Bürgerrechtsbewegung mit dem jungen Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. einen neuen Wortführer bekommt. In dieser ohnehin schon angespannten Lage wird Arthur Bishop, der Herausgeber der führenden schwarzen Tageszeitung ermordet. Sofort gerät der Journalist und ehemalige Cop Tommy Smith ins Fadenkreuz der rassistischen Polizisten. Um sich zu entlasten, muss Smith mehr über die Geschichte erfahren, an der Bishop gearbeitet hat.

Tief in den Wäldern des Staates Washington liegt die Holzfällerstadt Commonwealth. Charles Worthy hat sich mit der Gründung der Stadt und ihren gesellschaftlichen Idealen fernab von Ausbeutung und Unterdrückung einen Lebenstraum erfüllt. Doch sein Traum ist in Gefahr: Gerade als sich der Erste Weltkrieg seinem Ende zuneigt, bricht die todbringende Spanische Grippe aus. Die Bewohner von Commonwealth sind entschlossen, sich mit strenger Quarantäne zu schützen.

It's 1955 and ex-cop Tommy Smith is working as a crime writer for the only daily black newspaper in America when his boss, a prominent publisher with a politically complex past, turns up murdered, a group of corrupt white cops takes the opportunity to make sure Smith is prime suspect. To clear his name, Smith will need to enlist the help of his old boss, the resilient Sergeant McInnis - who has logged seven difficult years as the only white cop in a black precinct.

Atlanta, 1948. Boggs und Smith sind unter den ersten schwarzen Polizisten, die das Atlanta Police Department auf Anweisung von oben einstellen muss. Ihre weißen Kollegen begegnen ihnen mit tiefster Feindseligkeit. Als eine junge schwarze Frau tot aufgefunden wird, nehmen sie die Ermittlungen auf - und geraten an Dunlow, einen brutalen Cop, der das Viertel seit Langem wie ein kleiner König regiert. Zwischen zwielichtigen Alkoholschmugglern, scheinheiligen Puffmüttern, korrupten Gesetzeshütern und unter permanenter Anfeindung riskieren Boggs und Smith ihre neuen Jobs - und ihr Leben -, um den Fall zu lösen.

Atlanta 1950: Auch nach zwei Jahren Dienstzeit wird die Arbeit der ersten schwarzen Polizisten Atlantas täglich von Rassismus bestimmt. Die Cops Lucius Boggs und Tommy Smith haben kaum Befugnisse, und um Ermittlungen durchzuführen, sind sie auf die Hilfe weißer Polizisten angewiesen, die ihre Arbeit aber zumeist durch Schikanen und Willkür behindern. Als schwarze Familien - darunter die von Smiths Schwester - in ein ehemals rein weißes Viertel ziehen, beginnen die Rassenkonflikte in der sich rasant verändernden Stadt zu brodeln.

The Last Town on Earth centers on the inhabitants of a small logging town in Washington and what happens when they take drastic measures (quarantine) to try and protect themselves from the virulent and deadly flu epidemic of 1918. When a deserting WWI soldier demands sanctuary, events are set in motion that change the town forever.

Zed is an agent from the future. A time when the world's problems have been solved. No hunger. No war. No despair. His mission is to keep it that way. Even if it means ensuring every cataclysm throughout history runs its course-especially The Great Conflagration, an imminent disaster in our own time that Zed has been ordered to protect at all costs.

Diceva Faulkner che il Sud bisogna raccontarlo; che bisogna spiegare perché la gente vive lì, e anzi perché vive. Il Sud raccontato qui è quello della città di Atlanta del 1948, l'anno in cui, per la prima volta, a otto afroamericani fu concesso di arruolarsi nelle forze di polizia per pattugliare i quartieri abitati dalla propria gente.