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Aug 2023
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Paul Kix On The Civil Rights Movement An...

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Ryan speaks with Paul Kix about his new book You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America, how Ryan helped him shape his writing career after being laid off by ESPN, the painful realities of the Jim Crow south and 1963 Birmingham, and more. Paul Kix is an author, journalist, and podcaster whose wi ... Show More
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