A Black Minneapolis cop and inner-city football Coach faces racial reckoning after the murder of George Floyd inflames his city and forces him to explore the tensions in the neighborhood where he grew up.
Adams navigates the space between reality and perception, between law and justice, with the insight and wisdom he has gained from his unique experience..
The memoir of a Life divided, Twin Cities is the story of what happens when a man gives everything to his city in an effort to help kids envision a better future, only to have his city turn on him in response.
Working to maintain order in a riotous city, Adams feared for his life, his relationship to his community forever changed.
That lasted until Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd, which brought a rain of chaos upon Minneapolis.
As North High began to thrive, Adams was hailed as a model of what a Black man from a Black neighborhood might be.
With that success came renewed pride in the school and neighborhood both.
Adams stepped in as football coach, and transformed a winless team into state champions.
Then something magical happened.
Once the centerpiece of the community, the school was on the verge of folding.
North High was in rapid decline, a building designed for 1,700 students down to about 200.
After graduation he joined the Minneapolis Police Department, overcoming racial prejudice within its ranks to become his alma mater\'s resource officer.
Charles Adams is a product of the Minneapolis\'s North Side, the city\'s poorest neighborhood, and of North High, the state\'s poorest school.
A Black Minneapolis cop and inner-city football Coach faces racial reckoning after the murder of George Floyd inflames his city and forces him to explore the tensions in the neighborhood where he grew up
