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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Why small, predominantly white towns are protesting George Floyd’s killing

    While protests in major cities like LA, New York and Chicago got a lot of national attention, small, rural towns across America were holding protests of their own.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Jun 9, 2020 • 1 min read

    While protests in major cities like LA, New York and Chicago got a lot of national attention, small, rural towns across America were holding protests of their own. USC Annenberg School for Journalism and Communications’ professor emerita Judy Muller wrote about a 40-person vigil held in her predominantly white town of Norwood, Colorado.

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