Lexington Herald-Leader Apologizes For Lack of Civil Rights Coverage

A very admirable step toward helping us to understand the difficulties of this time!

Thivai

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Whiteout Mea Culpa: Kentucky Paper Apologizes for Lack of Civil Rights Coverage 40 Years Ago
Democracy Now

This July 4th, the Lexington Herald-Leader newspaper in Kentucky issued a front-page apology for failing to adequately cover the civil rights movement four decades ago. We speak with the author of the newspaper's mea culpa and a retired social worker who took photographs of Lexington civil rights activism in the 60s that were ignored by the local papers and never published at the time.

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