Friday, Mar. 16, 2018

The Daily

The New York Times

Daily News, News

4.4 • 102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Ida B. Wells was an investigative reporter who exposed the systematic lynching of black men in the South. Her work made her the most famous black woman in the country. But when she died in 1931, at the age of 68, The New York Times failed to write an obituary. Obituaries in The Times have been long dominated by white men. Now, the paper of record is trying to fix the record. Guests: Amisha Padnani, the digital editor on The Times’s obituaries desk and a leader of the Overlooked project; Caitlin Dickerson, a national reporter for The Times; Michelle Duster, a professor at Columbia College Chicago and a great-granddaughter of Ida B. Wells. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro.
0:02.5	This is The Daily.
0:09.0	Today, she was the most famous black woman in America
0:13.4	who exposed the systematic lynching of black men.
0:17.7	But when she died, the Times failed to write an obituary.
0:23.0	How the paper of record is trying to fix the record.
0:32.0	It's Friday, March 16th.
0:42.0	And so how did the two of them meet, do you know?
0:48.0	Opens are about life.
0:50.0	I think that's why people love them so much.
0:53.9	They're relatable.
0:55.0	They're interesting.
0:56.1	They're little nuggets of history.
0:57.9	At a concert with James Brown.
1:00.0	Often about things you never knew.
1:02.1	OK.
1:03.0	And the cause of death was cancer.
1:06.8	Do we know what kind?
1:08.8	It's almost as though you have to be part therapist
1:11.9	when you talk to families.
1:13.4	Oh, boy.
1:14.3	Repeating back what you're hearing.
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