By Any Means explores imperfect alliances in the fight for civil rights

A new historical crime thriller, By Any Means, revisits the violent struggle for civil rights in 1960s Mississippi, where an FBI agent joins forces with a Mafia hitman to pursue members of the Ku Klux Klan responsible for the murder of civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer.

The film stars Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as FBI agent Wayne Stryder, who returns to his home state to confront racial violence and fight for change.

For Abdul-Mateen, the…