In 1968, five black girls were picked up by police

after running away from a reform school in Mount Meg's Alabama.

I'm writer and reporter Josie Defi Rice,

and in a new podcast, I investigate the abuse

that thousands of black children suffered

at the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children

and how those five girls changed everything.

Listen to Unreformed on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,

or wherever you get your podcasts.

Welcome back out way fam.

Lisa and Amy here. Just a little quick intro before we get into our episode with

Danielle Wilson. And this episode is really rich in how we can

bring emotional strength to physical strength when it comes to

training and working out and becoming stronger in our physical bodies.

That being said, as we were kind of walking through it,

it just jogged a memory in me that I'm not sure I've ever really spoken about.

And I wanted to share it with you. And that was the time in my life

after my very restrictive eating took place that I got very focused on fitness

and performance and glute size and how many reps I could do.

And it was under this new guys of health.

And I was doing things like Spartan races, which are these three-hour

intense things. And even though I wasn't as focused anymore on eating very

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