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Humankind documentary: Ida B. Wells' Battle to Uncover the Truth

Humankind documentary: Ida B. Wells' Battle to Uncover the Truth

Born into slavery, Ida B. Wells became a ground-breaking investigative reporter in the 1890s exposing the domestic terrorism practiced by white supremacists. This Humankind special tells the true story of a fearless journalist, whose life was threatened while she revealed the truth.
by MPR News Staff

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Across the internet, a game of Whac-A-Mole is underway to root out extremism

Across the internet, a game of Whac-A-Mole is underway to root out extremism

How are alternative platforms, where extremist ideology and disinformation thrive, monitored? Can we ever really root out extremism in the virtual space or will the targets just keep jumping around?
by Tim Mak

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Reporter acquitted in case seen as attack on press rights

Reporter acquitted in case seen as attack on press rights

Jurors have acquitted an Iowa journalist who was pepper-sprayed and arrested by police while covering a protest in a case that critics have derided as an attack on press freedom and an abuse of prosecutorial discretion. 
by The Associated Press

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Roger Mudd, longtime network TV newsman, dies at 93

Roger Mudd, longtime network TV newsman, dies at 93

Longtime NBC and CBS correspondent and television anchor Roger Mudd has died at the age of 93. CBS News says Mudd died Tuesday of complications of kidney failure at his home in Virginia.
by The Associated Press

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Rush Limbaugh, 'voice of American conservatism,' has died

Rush Limbaugh, 'voice of American conservatism,' has died

Rush Limbaugh, the talk radio host who became the voice of American conservatism, has died. His death Wednesday at the age of 70 was announced on his website.
by The Associated Press

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Cicely Tyson, groundbreaking award-winning actor, dead at 96

Cicely Tyson, groundbreaking award-winning actor, dead at 96

Cicely Tyson, the pioneering Black actor who gained an Oscar nomination for her role as the sharecropper’s wife in “Sounder,” a Tony Award in 2013 at age 88 and touched TV viewers’ hearts in “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,” has died. She was 96.
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