The Holly : The Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood
Julian Rubinstein and Terrance Roberts in conversation with Hillary A. Potter
Award-winning journalist Julian Rubinstein’s book, The Holly: Five Bullets, One Gun, and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood, reconstructs the events around a summer evening in 2013, when five gunshots forever changed the course of revered anti-gang activist Terrance Robert’s life. Recently adapted into a documentary film, it explores the history of gang violence in a traditionally Black Denver neighborhood called the Holly. A multigenerational saga of race and politics that runs from the civil rights movement to Black Lives Matter, Robert’s trial exposes the faultlines of the city’s social, political, and legal crevices. In conversation with Hillary A. Potter, they discuss the fatal night that opened a Pandora’s box of questions on race, policing, and the abuse of power.
Julian Rubinstein’s :- recently published book The Holly: Five Bullets, One Gun, and the Struggle to Save an American Neighborhood (FSG), is a New York Times Editors’ Choice and the winner of the Colorado Book Award 2022. Rubinstein’s film, THE HOLLY, premiered at the Telluride Mountainfilm Festival 2022 and won the Audience Choice Award.
Terrance Roberts :- is a Civil Rights organizer who was born and raised in Denver, Colorado. He was an honor roll student who later became a Park Hill Blood in 1990. While incarcerated, Terrance renounced his gang involvement and began organizing. Mr. Roberts is the founder of The Prodigal Son Initiative, Heal The Hood Movement, Colorado CAMO Movement, and Frontline Party for Revolutionary Action (FPRA). He is currently a Denver mayoral candidate.
Hillary A. Potter :- is associate professor of women and gender dtudies at the University of Colorado Boulder. Dr. Potter’s research focuses on the critical analysis of the intersections of race, gender, and class as they relate to crime and violence. Dr. Potter is the author of Intersectionality and Criminology: Disrupting and Revolutionizing Studies of Crime and Battle Cries: Black Women and Intimate Partner Abuse, and is the editor of Racing the Storm: Racial Implications and Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina.
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