Checking In w/ Sherri Warren
Checking In with Michelle Williams
The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Michelle and Sherri are investigating the truth! Sherri tells the story of her brother's mysterious death. She also shares how this journey has impacted her life and her mission to help others. CHECK IN to this episode if you want to know how to make fundamental change in a broken system.
To get the full story about Keith’s unbelievable case, watch the 3-part docuseries on Discovery+
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Welcome to checking in with Michelle Williams, a production of IHeart Radio and The Black Effect. |
| 0:30.9 | 35 years ago, Maryland authorities ruled a quiet but confident 19-year-old Keith Warren's death, a suicide. |
| 0:37.2 | However, his sister Sherry says there is no evidence to support that the teen killed himself. |
| 0:41.3 | We're about to hear her story next on checking in. |
| 0:51.8 | Y'all, thank y'all so much for tuning in to this episode of checking in. You guys know that this was created to be a safe place for |
| 0:56.0 | any and everybody that comes on this podcast to share their story and for the listener. |
| 1:05.1 | So I just want to say that and I needed to set that up before we go into this next story. |
| 1:09.6 | In July 1986, a 19-year-old black man, Keith Warren, |
| 1:17.0 | was found hanging from a tree in the mostly white suburb of Silver Spring, Maryland. |
| 1:22.2 | And since then, his sister, Sherry Warren, has spent decades seeking the truth about what has truly happened |
| 1:30.0 | and fighting systemic corruption at every turn, I mean, every turn, you know, along the way. |
| 1:38.5 | So she's here to share her story and investigation into his death. |
| 1:44.0 | And I have to say, Sherry and I, we were sitting on here reminiscing about relationship that we've had over 15 years ago. |
| 1:52.1 | She worked at Columbia Records. |
| 1:54.2 | And she was in the promotions department, marketing department. |
| 1:58.9 | And I went on the road to promote a project and she was the |
| 2:03.0 | person on the road with me. And I'm going to say this to say because it brings tears to my eyes. |
| 2:08.7 | This happened in 1986. I met you in the 2000, Sherry, not knowing this is what you were going through. |
| 2:20.3 | And I hate that. |
| 2:22.3 | And I know you have a job to do. |
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