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Tag: Sun Reporter publisher and physician Carlton Goodlett

Remembering Jonestown: ‘White Nights, Black Paradise’ author Sikivu Hutchinson speaks

Seventy-five percent of the membership of Peoples Temple was African American, and the majority of those who died in Jonestown were African American women. The Jonestown victims have been demonized and marginalized – stripped of agency and, in many respects, humanity. The settlement was envisioned – and promoted – as a kind of “Promised Land,” a racial utopia and antidote to the white supremacist violence and dehumanization Black people experienced in the U.S.