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In 1946, Orson Welles, the director of Citizen Kane, was at the height of his fame. At the time, he had a national radio show called Orson W...

What happened inside of the courtroom when Joe Cameron stood trial for the murder of Reverend Pickett? The trial tells a deeper story about...

The Columbus police investigate one of their own, Joe Cameron in the Reverend Pickett's death and come up with a surprising conclusion. Mean...

Did the World War II battle of Peleliu, where more than 20,000 American and Japanese combatants fought on an island they could walk across,...

How medical myths about Black people led American health care to fail Clarence Pickett in 1957. It is a tragedy that, 70 years later, is sti...

Rev. Clarence Pickett's final days: his arrest, his beating and how he saw a doctor one day and was dead the next. For more, visit buriedtru...

Rev. Clarence Horatious Pickett was a celebrated young pastor who developed behavioral problems that drew attention and arrests. But none sh...

After enthralling congregations for several years, Rev. Pickett landed in the Georgia state mental institution, then a county jail where the...

Four days before Christmas in 1957, Clarence Horatious Pickett, a preacher and newspaper ad salesman in Columbus, Georgia, walked into town...

Caroline Herring is a singer, songwriter and scholar of the South. She discusses the evolution of her music and of the song she wrote for Bu...

Buried Truths Live, Part 2: Our special event continues with a conversation between Hank and Kelley Stinson, granddaughter of the policeman...

Buried Truths Live, Part I: a special evening onstage with the daughters of James Brazier, who share the pain of his loss some 60 years afte...

An anonymous letter in the files of Donald Lee Hollowell captures white attitudes in the South. Some whites harbored no hatred for Black peo...

Voting rights activists in Terrell are met with shootings and arson, attracting the attention of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Jackie Robinson...

Penniless and heartbroken, Hattie Bell Brazier pulls the only lever of power available to her: she sues Mathews and Cherry in federal court,...

James Brazier’s family will never forget his killing, but what about the family of Weyman Cherry? His granddaughter reaches out to us after...

An underground railroad of information smuggles the story of Terrible Terrell out of Georgia and onto the Washington Post’s front page.

The police said Willie Countryman had a knife, but did he? And his girlfriend is left to wonder about his love for her.

The cops had already hurt James Brazier when they arrested him and took him to jail. But they returned late that night to finish him.

On one April day, three generations of the Brazier family, including 10-year-old James Jr., were beaten by white Dawson police.

Terrell County was like a lot of rural communities in Georgia. But in some ways, it was like no other place on earth.

James and Hattie Brazier worked hard and earned more than most people in Dawson, white or black. But this black couple's prosperity was a pr...

An interview with Margaret Burnham about her new book, By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners . The book is so revealing that we...

A gruesome, unpunished 1967 murder reveals little-known stories of the civil rights movement and Black resistance in Mississippi and Louisia...

The men convicted of killing Ahmaud Arbery have now been sentenced. Host Hank Klibanoff and his Emory colleague, professor Carol Anderson, t...

The jury finds all three defendants guilty of murder. Sentencing will come later, but the three will almost surely live out their years in p...

Although the racial composition of the jury – 11 white jurors, one black – has set off alarm bells, the trial commences with three opening s...

The murder trial for defendants Gregory McMichael, Travis McMichael and William “Roddie” Bryan is set to begin in October and there have bee...

In February 2020, Hank Klibanoff was invited back to his hometown of Florence, Alabama for a live community event. It got him thinking about...

One year after the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, Hank Klibanoff returns to Closer Look with Rose Scott to discuss the latest developments in the...

Join host Hank Klibanoff, his team of Emory University student researchers, and the WABE production team as they deconstruct the podcast to...

With the video released, the public outcry grew to a rolling boil.

What happens when a police officer skips school?

How did the men who killed Ahmaud Arbery come so close to escaping all scrutiny?

The Georgia coast, where Ahmaud Arbery was born and killed, is steeped in history. Hank Klibanoff and his students trace the family roots of...

Funny, humble, and always saying “I love you.” The officer who approached Ahmaud as he sat alone in his parked car saw something different.

Why did they chase him in the first place? Investigators find disturbing Instagram posts and text messages.

Ahmaud Arbery went for a Sunday afternoon jog in a quiet neighborhood near the Georgia coast. He never made it home.

The afternoon of February 23, 2020, was a typically beautiful winter day on Georgia’s coast. Sunny and clear with a high near 65. At about 1...

Sallie Nixon was small in stature, but large in spirit, strength and willpower. In 1948, she watched as two white men killed her husband Isa...

In 1936, a black man named Thomas Finch was shot and killed by an Atlanta police officer who later became leader of the Ku Klux Klan. Very l...

Sheriff David Davis of Macon-Bibb county, LaTasha Morrison of Be The Bridge and Jill Savitt of the National Center for Civil and Human Right...

Howard Moore, Jr. and Newton Collier join Hank Klibanoff for a live show at the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta. They share more abo...

Former president Jimmy Carter visits Hank’s class at Emory University. He describes the racial climate in Georgia from his childhood to his...

On the heels of the 2018 Peabody Award win, Hank talks to 1A about making Buried Truths, its relevance today and where he hopes to take the...

Why tell A.C.’s story? Hank looks at the many ways in which 1962 resonates today and he heads to Macon with his students to visit A.C.’s gra...

So what happens after the storm? Hank discusses the after effects of the A.C. Hall verdict, grand jury proceedings and an FBI investigation....

The police take the stand. Years later, one of their sons speaks out. The jury delivers its decision.

How accurate is eyewitness identification? Donald Hollowell, one of the civil rights attorneys representing A.C. Hall's family, questions wh...

It's the wrong gun. As Barnett Hopper takes the stand, saying the gun that police found isn’t his after all, we examine the kind of training...
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