Not Just Mound Bayou: 5 US Towns Founded By Black People
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on May 9, 2025
Mound Bayou was a town that came up several times in Ryan Coogler’s original film, Sinners. (There are no spoilers here.) Twin brothers Elias and Elijah Moore, known as Stack and Smoke, discussed how Mound Bayou was their dream place to live because it was a town “Founded for us, by us.”
As previously reported, Mound Bayou is known as the “Jewel of the . . .
