KFF Health News Midwest reporter Cara Anthony took a seat with WORLD executive manufacturer Chris Hastings to go over the origins of the “Silence in Sikeston” job, which checks out the effect of a 1942 lynching and a 2020 cops shooting on a rural Missouri neighborhood. The cooperation with Retro Report consists of a documentary, instructional videos, digital posts, and a limited-series podcast on the toll bigotry has on health.
For more on the “Silence in Sikeston” task:
SEE: The documentary “Silence in Sikeston,” a co-production of KFF Health News and Retro Report, is now readily available to stream on WORLD’s YouTube channel, WORLDchannel.org and the PBS app.
LISTEN: The limited-series podcast
- Episode 1: “Racism Can Make You Sick”
The 1942 lynching of Cleo Wright in Sikeston, Missouri, and discussions with among the couple of staying witnesses release a conversation about the health repercussions of bigotry and violence in the United States. Host Cara Anthony consults with history scholar Eddie R. Cole and racial equity scholar Keisha Bentley-Edwards about the physical, psychological, and psychological problems on Sikeston homeowners and Black Americans in basic.
- Episode 2: “Hush, Fix Your Face”
Racial violence is an experience shared by citizens of Sikeston, Missouri, and numerous Black Americans. Remaining quiet in the face of this hazard is a survival custom households have actually given to their kids to keep them safe. After host Cara Anthony discovers information of a cops killing in her household, she and psychologist Aiesha Lee talk about the silence that surrounds bigotry and its impacts on health throughout generations– consisting of the reverberations Anthony and her household cope with today.
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READ: KFF Health News Midwest reporter Cara Anthony composed an essay about what her reporting on this job assisted her learn more about her own household’s covert past.
- “No One Wants To Talk About Racial Trauma. Why My Family Broke Our Silence.”