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Ann Ford, a member of the Coeur d'Alene Tribe, at the Indigenous Peoples March in 2019 where demonstrators raised awareness about missing and murdered Indigenous women.
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ensorship in an authoritarian society is obvious, from a distance, at least. There is a central agent or agency responsible for it and the lines are clearly drawn. That's not the case in America, yet some stories rarely, if ever, see the light of day.
Why?
One reason: While journalists every day work hard to expose injustices, they work within a system where some injustices are so deeply baked in that stories exposing them are rarely told and even more rarely expanded upon to give them their proper due.