This week, WABE is launching a new podcast that explores the mysteries and injustices of history through civil rights cases that few have seen.
“Buried Truths” is hosted by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and son of the South Hank Klibanoff. He joined Denis O’Hayer on “Morning Edition” to talk about the podcast and its connection to his work as a journalist and with the Civil Rights Cold Case Project.
On why he’s spent much of his career investigating civil rights cold cases
It’s unresolved history. What’s [a journalist’s] one mission in life? It’s to be curious and to ask questions and to find the truth and finish the story. That’s a motivating factor for me.
On how growing up in the South informs his work
I grew up watching this. I was born in 1949, which means that as I’m entering the first grade the Southern states have just been handed down an order by the U.S. Supreme Court on Brown v. Board of Education. But, of course, Alabama resisted and quite…
