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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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    4. 37:26Jazz musician Terence Blanchard on ‘Da 5 Bloods,’ Spike Lee, and the current civil unrest
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    The full episode

    2 of 4
    The fight to end qualified immunity for cops
    1. 0:00Sen. Cory Booker, other Democrats want to eliminate qualified immunity
    2. 10:43Why small, predominantly white towns are protesting George Floyd’s killingYou’re reading this
    3. 17:17KCRW’s ‘Samaritans’: a shower and clean clothes
    4. 37:26Jazz musician Terence Blanchard on ‘Da 5 Bloods,’ Spike Lee, and the current civil unrest
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