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Sep 2023
41m 55s

Soledad O'Brien

Sony Music Entertainment
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Peabody and Emmy award-winning journalist Soledad O’Brien joins the show. Over burgers and shakes, we discuss her impressive reporting career, earning accolades for her coverage of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Plus, we get her take on why cases of Black missing men and women don’t get enough attention in the U.S., objectivity in journalism, and the state of the Republican party. This episode of Dinner’s On Me was recorded at Harlem Shake in Harlem, NYC.


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