A Look At Mt. Meigs' Dark Past
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4.6 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Host Josie Duffy Rice tells us about “Unreformed,” her investigative podcast series about Mt. Meigs — a juvenile reform school outside of Montgomery, Alabama, where thousands of Black children were subjected to abuse for decades. The series follows the stories of former students who were sent to Mt. Meigs as children during the Civil Rights era — and how their time at the facility impacted their lives as adults.
And in headlines: the death toll from the mass shooting in Monterey Park, California rose to 11 people, four more Oath Keepers were found guilty of seditious conspiracy for their role in the Capitol riots, and Microsoft said it will invest billions of dollars in the research startup behind the AI chatbot system ChatGPT.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, January 24th. I'm Josie Duffy-Rice. |
| 0:04.7 | And I'm Trevelle Anderson and this is what a day, |
| 0:07.4 | where we will quietly overlook that you've already abandoned your New Year's resolution |
| 0:11.2 | if you'll do the same for us. |
| 0:12.7 | Actually, my nearest resolution was to Nottie Dice Cream for Breakfast anymore, |
| 0:16.9 | and I have kept it up. |
| 0:19.8 | At least for 24 days, and we love that for you. |
| 0:22.4 | Yeah, exactly, exactly. |
| 0:24.6 | And also, I might have cheated one day. |
| 0:31.1 | On today's show, investigators continue to search for a motive |
| 0:33.8 | behind Saturday's mass shooting in Southern California. |
| 0:36.7 | Plus, the FDA is considering a potential overhaul |
| 0:39.2 | to its COVID vaccine strategy. |
| 0:41.0 | But first, today we're going to talk about a new project |
| 0:43.8 | that you've been working on, Josie. |
| 0:45.6 | We mentioned it last Wednesday. |
| 0:47.2 | It's an eight-episode narrative podcast called Unreformed. |
| 0:51.1 | And the first episode was released last week. |
| 0:53.2 | Can you tell us a little bit about the podcast? |
| 0:55.6 | Yeah, I can. |
| 0:56.8 | So this is a project I've been working on for a while, |
| 0:59.9 | since even before I started here at WOD. |
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