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    Back to Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Reckoning with America’s Racist Past

    South Carolina lawmakers voted by overwhelming majority to take down the Confederate Flag. But removing the flag doesn’t erase South Carolina’s past as a center of the slave-owning south. Neither the southern states nor the federal government have officially come to terms with slavery and how it built this nation.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Jul 9, 2015 • 1 min read

    South Carolina lawmakers voted by overwhelming majority to take down the Confederate Flag. But removing the flag doesn’t erase South Carolina’s past as a center of the slave-owning south. Neither the southern states nor the federal government have officially come to terms with slavery and how it built this nation. How is this past whitewashed today?

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    Reckoning with America’s Racist Past, Rosé and Making L.A.: Hollywood
    1. 0:00Reckoning with America’s Racist PastYou’re reading this
    2. 8:36Race Relations in Prisons
    3. 16:38Web Roundup: Reddit and more
    4. 27:37Making L.A.: The Hollywood Episode
    5. 43:56The Rise of Rosé Wine
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      Madeleine Brand

      Host, 'Press Play'

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      Matt Holzman

      Producer, 'The Document'

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      Anna Scott

      Former KCRW Housing and Homelessness Reporter

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      Jolie Myers

      Managing Producer, 'Press Play'

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      Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author

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    The full episode

    1 of 5
    Reckoning with America’s Racist Past, Rosé and Making L.A.: Hollywood
    1. 0:00Reckoning with America’s Racist PastYou’re reading this
    2. 8:36Race Relations in Prisons
    3. 16:38Web Roundup: Reddit and more
    4. 27:37Making L.A.: The Hollywood Episode
    5. 43:56The Rise of Rosé Wine
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