Midnight Atlanta

Atlanta 1956. When Arthur Bishop editor of Atlanta's leading black newspaper is killed in his office cop-turned-journalist Tommy Smith finds himself in the crosshairs of the racist cops he's been trying to avoid. To clear his name he needs to learn more about the dangerous story Bishop had been working on. Meanwhile Smith's ex-partner Lucius Boggs and white sergeant Joe McInnis find themselves caught between meddling federal agents racist detectives and Communist activists. With a young Rev. Martin Luther King Jnr making headlines of his own and tensions in the city growing Boggs and Smith find themselves back on the same side in a hunt for the truth that will put them both at risk.