This is exactly right.

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How do you describe the story and its themes?

I would describe it as a story about the ripple effects of hatred, the struggle for political power, and what I call historical

amnesia.

I'm Kate Winkler Dawson, a non-fiction author and journalism professor in Austin, Texas.

I'm also the host of the Historical True Crime Podcast, Tenfold More Wicked on Exactly Right.

I've traveled around the world interviewing people for the show.

I've interviewed some people in person and some from my home studio over Zoom.

And they are all excellent writers.

They've had so many great true crime stories.

And now we want to tell you those stories with

details that have never been published. Wicked Words is about the choices that

writers make good and bad. It's a deep dive into the stories behind the stories.

John Blake is a senior writer and producer with CNN

and he's also the author of a book called Children of the Movement. In the book Blake collected the intimate

moving stories of families who were pulled apart by the horrors of the civil rights movement.

And it features the stories from some of the era's

most recognizable figures.

In that book, Blake reports on the story of James Earl Cheney,

a black civil rights worker who was murdered in Mississippi in the 1960s alongside two white

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