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.

Hey Amy here for a quick little intro with my 13-year-old daughter, Stasira.

Because today's episode focuses on mother-daughter relationships,

but really you don't have to be a mom to gain insight from this episode.

You might be an adult with no kids, but you're a daughter who grew up

with a mom that had unhealthy rhetoric around her body

or unhealthy relationship with food.

And now you have to deal with that as an adult because, you know,

when we learn to as kids, it often sticks with us,

and it's hard to shake.

And I started dieting early on.

Stasira is here.

She's in seventh grade.

I probably started dieting in eighth or ninth grade,

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