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Baltimore uprising following the death of freddie gray he is interviewed by the most senior fellow heather mcgee. Hi, how are you . I am good and so happy to see im so grateful youre doing this. It is so great to give our audience the opportunity to get to know bestselling author, wes moore author of i am wes moore and now a new book that could not have been more timely. You cowrote the book i would say with erica greene and warren winning record who covered education for the New York Times in baltimore reported that was part of the team for its breaking News Coverage of the death of freddie gray and those events that followed. This book is a beautiful way to understand what happened to freddie gray, what has happened to baltimore, what happens in black and white america. How the lives that connect us and the un truth and a half spoken truth and the incomplete stories stop us ....
Its a great to give our audience the opportunity to get to know the bestselling author wes moore. You wrote the book with the awardwinning reporter the Baltimore Sun reporter final to the 2016 Pulitzer Prize with the death the freddie gray. This book is a beautiful way to understand what happened to freddie gray, baltimore with black and White America and the half broken truth and the incomplete stories that stop us from being one community. So thats a way to think about uprising and reckonings in america. Im just really pleased to have this conversation with you. Lets start by talking about the young man whose life was taken from us, freddie gray. But then leaving the funeral all the different parts Baltimore Society and knit the thread to paint a story to reflect ....
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