WORLD Channel Presents: Silence in Sikeston
“Silence in Sikeston” explores what it means to live with racism and violence, then charts the toll on our health — from hives, high blood pressure, inflammation and heart disease to struggles with mental health. In 1942, Cleo Wright was removed from a Sikeston, Missouri, jail and lynched by a mob. Nearly 80 years later, Denzel Taylor was killed by police in the same community. The deaths of these two Black fathers tell a story about the public health consequences of racism and systemic bias. Meet residents determined to live healthier lives after generations of community silence. “Silence in Sikeston” is the podcast about finding the words to say the things that go unsaid. This is an invitation. Perhaps this journalism, these stories, will spark a conversation that you’ve been meaning to have. Hosted by Cara Anthony, a KFF Health News Midwest correspondent and an Edward R. Murrow and National Association of Black Journalists award-winning reporter from East St. Louis, Illinois. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Time magazine, NPR, and other outlets nationwide. The limited series drops every Tuesday starting Sept. 10. Subscribe and listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, iHeart or wherever you get your podcasts. The podcast is a production of KFF Health News and WORLD. Distributed by PRX.📱Watch the accompanying documentary, “Silence in Sikeston,” starting Sept. 16. Learn more here. Follow WORLD on our Newsletter, YouTube, Facebook, X, Instagram, Tiktok.
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“Silence in Sikeston” explores what it means to live with racism and violence, then charts the toll on our health — from hives, high blood pressure, inflammation and heart disease to struggles with mental health.
In 1942, Cleo Wright was removed from a Sikeston, Missouri, jail and lynched by a mob. Nearly 80 years later, Denzel Taylor was killed by police in the same community. The deaths of these two Black fathers tell a ...
📱Watch the accompanying documentary, “Silence in Sikeston,” starting Sept. 16. Learn more here.
The 1942 lynching of Cleo Wright in Sikeston, Missouri, and conversations with one of the few remaining witnesses launch a discussion about the health consequences of racism and violence in the United States. Host Cara Anthony speaks with history scholar Eddie R. Cole and racial equity scholar Keisha Bentley-Edwards about the ph...
📱Watch the accompanying documentary, “Silence in Sikeston,” starting Sept. 16. Learn more here.
Racial violence is an experience shared by residents of Sikeston, Missouri, and many Black Americans. Staying silent in the face of this threat is a survival tradition families have passed down to their children to keep them safe. After host Cara Anthony uncovers details of a police killing in her family, she and psychologist Ai...
📱Watch the accompanying documentary, “Silence in Sikeston,” starting Sept. 16. Learn more here.
The tables have turned as Cara Anthony, podcast host and KFF Health News Midwest correspondent, answers questions from WORLD's editor-in-chief and executive producer, Chris Hastings. The two talk about her career as a journalist covering public health and health policy and how her reporting helped launch the film and podcast, "S...
📱Watch the accompanying documentary, “Silence in Sikeston,” starting Sept. 16. Learn more here.
Host Cara Anthony and pediatrician Rhea Boyd draw health parallels between the loss experienced by two families nearly 80 years apart. In both cases, young daughters were left behind. At age 79, Nannetta Forrest, whose father, Cleo Wright, was lynched in Sikeston, Missouri, wonders how the decades-long silence that surro...
📱Watch the accompanying documentary, “Silence in Sikeston,” starting Sept. 16. Learn more here.
Starting with a Juneteenth celebration in Sikeston, Missouri; a chat with a confident, outspoken teen; and an uncommonly frank interview with the police chief, host Cara Anthony searches for what it will take to stop racism from making Black people sick. Health equity expert Gail Christopher says the answer is community-level, i...
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