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麻豆女优 Health News: Podcast Episode 2: Hush, Fix Your Face
In Episode 2 of the 鈥淪ilence in Sikeston鈥 podcast, host Cara Anthony speaks with Sikeston, Missouri, resident Larry McClellon, who grew up being told not to talk about the 1942 lynching of Cleo Wright. He is determined to break the cycle of silence in his community. Anthony also unearths a secret in her own family and grapples with the possible effects of intergenerational trauma. (Anthony, 9/17)
鈫 Catch up on Episode 1 of the 鈥淪ilence in Sikeston鈥 podcast:
麻豆女优 Health News: Watch: New Documentary Film Explores A Lynching And A Police Killing 78 Years Apart
In 1942, a young Black man named Cleo Wright was removed from a Sikeston, Missouri, jail and lynched by a white mob. Nearly 80 years later, another young Black man, Denzel Taylor, was shot at least 18 times by police in the same small community.聽In the hourlong 鈥淪ilence in Sikeston鈥 documentary film broadcast on WORLD鈥檚 鈥淟ocal, USA,鈥 麻豆女优 Health News and Retro Report explore how the impact of these men鈥檚 killings tells a story about trauma and racism, but also resilience and healing.聽(Anthony, 9/17)
鈫 Read 麻豆女优 Health News鈥 about what reporting on this project helped her learn about her own family鈥檚 hidden past.
鈫 on the "Silence in Sikeston" project.
