New Season of ‘Buried Truths’ Podcast Investigates and Explores the Ahmaud Arbery Case
Across the seven episodes, all available for download on your favorite podcast player and at wabe.org/shows/buried-truths/, Klibanoff applies the same lens through which he’s investigated and analyzed other cases of racial injustice from the modern civil rights era.
Klibanoff and his undergraduate students at Emory University in Atlanta have spent the summer reviewing the evidence, researching the history, connecting with those who knew Ahmaud Arbery, and others who grew up in the racial climate that produced the men charged with the shooting death of Arbery -- Greg McMichael, Travis McMichael and William “Roddie” Bryan.
Buried Truths’ deep research reveals details about the case that are both disheartening and inspiring. “We started with one or two episodes in mind, but my students’ research and interviews produced more and more discoveries that just wouldn’t let go of us and wouldn’t let us stop,” said Klibanoff, the Pulitzer-Prize winning host of Buried Truths who also leads the Georgia Civil Rights Cold Cases Project at Emory University. “The primary characters - victim and perpetrators - have roots that go back to America’s original sin, slavery, so we had a lot of ground to cover and surprising stories to tell. If you thought we were well past the master-slave mentality, please listen.”
HANK KlIBANOFF is a veteran journalist, Peabody Award-winning podcast host, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and a son of the South. Hank co-authored The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation, which won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for history.
A native of Alabama, Hank was a reporter and editor for more than 35 years at Mississippi newspapers, The Boston Globe and The Philadelphia Inquirer before serving as managing editor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
He holds an undergraduate degree in English from Washington University in St. Louis and a master’s degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. The executive producers of season three of Buried Truths are Je-Anne Berry and John Haas. The senior producer is David Barasoain. The writers are Richard Halicks and Hank Klibanoff. Researchers are Jake Busch, Hannah Charak, Jordan Flowers, Cameron Katz, Sage Mason and Rowan Thomas.
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