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English and Creative Writing Professor of Practice Hank Klibanoff tells the stories of both men and racial violence in Dawson on the fourth season, titled “Race & Rage in Terrible Terrell,” of the Peabody Award-winning podcast “Buried Truths.”
“Buried Truths,” the award-winning podcast based on Emory’s Georgia Civil Rights Cold Cases Project course, devotes its new season to two 1958 police killings of Black men in Terrell County, Georgia. It will be available starting Feb. 22.
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The American Bar Association (ABA) has awarded its distinguished Silver Gavel award to the latest season of “Buried Truths,” the podcast based on a course taught by Emory’s Pulitzer Prize–winning professor and journalist Hank Klibanoff. Season 3 focused on last year’s shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed Black man pursued by three armed white men near the coastal Georgia city of Brunswick. The ABA selected it as one of six recipients of its 2021 awards recognizing exemplary work. ABA President Patricia Lee Refo will present the award during a virtual ceremony July 13. The eve...