An Unresolved Past
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For this special Latino USA presentation of In The Thick, Maria and Julio are joined by\\xa0Al Letson, host of Reveal and the new podcast series, \\u201cMississippi Goddamn: The Ballad of Billey Joe.\\u201d Billey Joe Johnson Jr. was a Black high school football star who was found dead in Lucedale, Mississippi in 2008 after being pulled over by a white cop. They get into his story, the problematic history of investigations when it comes to suspicious deaths of Black people in Mississippi, and journalists\\u2019 responsibility when covering these tragic stories.
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