KFF Health News Midwest correspondent Cara Anthony sat down with WORLD govt producer Chris Hastings to debate the origins of the “Silence in Sikeston” venture, which explores the affect of a 1942 lynching and a 2020 police capturing on a rural Missouri group. The collaboration with Retro Report features a documentary movie, instructional movies, digital articles, and a limited-series podcast on the toll racism has on well being.
For extra on the “Silence in Sikeston” venture:
WATCH: The documentary movie “Silence in Sikeston,” a co-production of KFF Health News and Retro Report, is now accessible to stream on WORLD’s YouTube channel, WORLDchannel.org and the PBS app.
LISTEN: The limited-series podcast
The 1942 lynching of Cleo Wright in Sikeston, Missouri, and conversations with one of many few remaining witnesses launch a dialogue concerning the well being penalties of racism and violence within the United States. Host Cara Anthony speaks with historical past scholar Eddie R. Cole and racial fairness scholar Keisha Bentley-Edwards concerning the bodily, psychological, and emotional burdens on Sikeston residents and Black Americans typically.
Racial violence is an expertise shared by residents of Sikeston, Missouri, and lots of Black Americans. Staying silent within the face of this risk is a survival custom households have handed right down to their youngsters to maintain them protected. After host Cara Anthony uncovers particulars of a police killing in her household, she and psychologist Aiesha Lee talk about the silence that surrounds racism and its results on well being throughout generations — together with the reverberations Anthony and her household reside with in the present day.
READ: KFF Health News Midwest correspondent Cara Anthony wrote an essay about what her reporting on this venture helped her study her circle of relatives’s hidden previous.
Cara Anthony:
canthony@kff.org,
@CaraRAnthony
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