Everything changes with time, but they're still doing community work.
They do believe in armed self defense, which can put some people on edge (and has since there were black folks doing the same in the 60s) , but I understand it.
A great book on armed resistance in the civil rights movement is The Deacons of Defense.
The Deacons for Defense
In 1964 a small group of African American men in Jonesboro, Louisiana, defied the nonviolence policy of the mainstream civil rights movement and formed an ar...
The University of North Carolina Press (uncpress.org)

