A secret, white, racist organization plans to poison the water supplies of Detroit, Washington DC, and Los Angeles with a serum that exterminates those cities’ Black population. All looks lost until the karate-chopping trio of Jim Brown, Fred Williamson, and Jim Kelly – powered by a Chicago Soul soundtrack recorded by the Impressions – decides
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