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Hugh McColl's Last Great Investment - Duration: 3:26.

Hugh McColl�s Last Great Investment.

The ex-Bank of America chief is dedicated to improving the plight of black people in

his hometown.

He started by helping a young black protester reach the city council.

on the night of September 20, 2016, while tear gas plumed and bottles flew and the interstate

burned in Charlotte, the man who built the city was in a hotel room 750 miles away, watching

it all on television, wondering what in the hell was going on.

Hugh McColl wielded more influence than any banker in the country during the last quarter

of the 20th century, turning a small North Carolina bank into Bank of America, a financial

colossus that transformed the nation�s financial landscape as much as it did the city�s skyline.

After McColl retired in 2001, he remained a prominent figure in Charlotte.

But he often reminded people in speeches and interviews that he wasn�t going to live

forever, that new leaders needed to emerge.

In recent years, around the time of his 80th birthday in 2015, McColl made a decision with

his family that he would devote his remaining years to Charlotte�s black community and

west side neighborhoods, investing time and money in early-childhood education buildings,

affordable-housing projects and job programs.

He had helped make Charlotte a capital of the New South, but he was galled by a 2014

study that ranked Charlotte last among the country�s 50 largest cities in terms of

upward mobility.

To oversimplify, he knew that under the surface of this sparkling city, the distance was growing

between people who looked like him and the mostly black people he saw protesting.

What he was watching on television that night from his Little Rock hotel room was a reckoning.

�You ask yourself, �How as a society did we treat people so badly?�� McColl told

me recently.

�We�re guilty as charged.�

The scenes on TV were familiar by then�aerial footage of large groups squaring off with

officers after another police shooting of a black man.

But until the night, when Charlotte-Mecklenburg police shot and killed Keith Lamont Scott,

those scenes always unfolded somewhere else, places like Baltimore and St. Louis.

Charlotte, the expression here went, was too nice and friendly to stand up.

A former college linebacker with long dreadlocks, Winston was driving home after coaching a

middle-school football game when he saw flashing lights and people in the street.

Winston was an anonymous figure in this fast-growing city, a father of three kids scratching together

a living as a videographer, an Uber driver, a stagehand and a part-time coach.

His father is a New York City Fire Department captain who served in both the Marine Corps

and the Air Force.

His mother was a New York City schoolteacher.

Winston graduated from the prestigious Phillips Academy in Massachusetts and then Davidson

College, with a degree in anthropology.

A few weeks before the September 20 shooting, he recorded himself venting his frustrations

over the fallout from Colin Kaepernick�s decision to kneel during the national anthem.

�Flags and songs and medals are not more important than people,� he said in the video.

�You value that smiling black face, but you (don�t) value the crying black soul.�

Now here he was, a 33-year-old black man getting out of his car to protest in the streets of

the city McColl built

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Wounded Menendez draws few challengers - Duration: 3:24.

The top 10 House races to watch in 2018.

Key districts around the country that will define next year's battle for control of the

House. House Republicans are in trouble heading into

2018.

President Donald Trump�s unpopularity, voter distaste of Washington and a highly energized

Democratic base have combined into a toxic brew for the GOP and its 24-seat House majority.

A record number of Democratic candidates are piling into swing districts from Southern

California to northern Maine and from the Florida Keys to suburban Seattle, and Republicans

trail by double-digits in many national House polls.

But ultimately, the battle for the House is a district-by-district affair. And a handful

of seats scattered across the country reveal the trends that will dominate those battleground

races for the next year, including huge Democratic primaries, Republicans� growing suburban

problem, and the outbreak of sexual misconduct allegations roiling more and more campaigns

every week.

Here are POLITICO�s 10 most important House races of 2018 � and why they matter in the

battle for the House:

Illinois� 6th District: Revenge of the suburbs

GOP Rep. Peter Roskam won reelection handily in 2016, but his Chicagoland district saw

a big shift, with President Donald Trump losing it by 7 points after Mitt Romney carried the

seat by 8 points in 2012. And since Trump took office, elections in Virginia, New Jersey

and a handful of congressional special elections around the country have seen local candidates

fall to or even below Trump�s levels in the suburbs.

That�s a big warning sign for Roskam and other Republicans in suburbs of New York,

Los Angeles, Detroit, Kansas City and more heading into 2018. Democrats have to wade

through a crowded primary before they face Roskam. Kelly Mazeski, who picked up an EMILY�s

List endorsement and raised the most money last quarter, is leading the pack, though

anything can happen in a field of seven candidates. But even a bruised Democratic opponent may

not stem the tide against Roskam and other suburban congressmen.

�Increasingly socially progressive, suburban voters have been drifting away from the GOP

for years,� said Ian Russell, former Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee deputy executive

director. �Trump dramatically accelerated this movement, and the tax bill will only

further alienate them.�

Democrats are not just targeting suburban seats, though. Salt Lake County Mayor Ben

McAdams is among a growing cadre of Democratic candidates hoping to turn Trump country blue,

along with Paul Davis, a former candidate for governor of Kansas.

In Utah, McAdams won his first mayor�s race in 2012, when Mormon Republicans were out

in force to back Mitt Romney. And while Romney got 60 percent in Salt Lake County, McAdams

got 55 percent. �I have a reputation as someone who gets things done by working across

party lines,� McAdams said, adding that he expects the same ticket-splitting in his

bid against GOP Rep. Mia Love.

These campaigns will look different than some �resistance�-style Democratic candidates

around the country. Davis kicked off his campaign for Kansas� open 2nd District seat by saying

he wouldn�t support Nancy Pelosi as speaker because �we need new leadership in both

political parties,� he said. That gamble, which positions him outside national Democrats,

hasn�t hurt him in Washington. The DCCC has already listed him as a top-tier candidate,

and Minority Whip Steny Hoyer�s PAC donated to Davis� campaign.

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