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Mar 2023
36m 13s

6 - Never Had a Friend Like Me

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About this episode

Yohance speaks to the Black minister about the notion that the attacker and his victim have become friends.


Credits

Host: Yohance Lacour

Producers: Bill Healy, Dana Brozost-Kelleher, Erisa Apantaku, Sarah Geis

Sound Design/Mixing and Music Supervision: Steven Jackson and Phil Dmochowski at the Audio Non-Visual Company

Original Music: Taka Yasuzawa

Executive Producers: Alison Flowers and Jamie Kalven (Invisible Institute) and Josh Bloch (USG Audio)

Production Support: Jennifer Sears and Josh Laolagi

Fact-checking: Angely Mercado

Key Art: Kenneth L. Copeland, Jr.

Special Thanks: Mindy Pugh and The Progressive Community Church Archives at the Illinois Institute of Technology

 

Archival audio in this episode include (in order of appearance): CNN, NPR/All Things Considered, WMAQ, Paramount Pictures, and WBEZ.

 

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