Unlike the previous two seasons of WABE’s Peabody award-winning podcast, “Buried Truths,” its third debut takes on the recent case of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man who was shot and killed while jogging in a Brunswick-area neighborhood by a white father and son. The podcast originated from the work of the Georgia Civil Rights Cold Cases Project under Emory University.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist Hank Klibanoff runs the class. He told WABE that for months this year, we reverted back to 1950s Georgia.
“When white people, particularly police, could kill Black people with impunity,” Klibanoff said, in response to the fact that no arrests were made for more than two months after Arbery was killed in February.
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