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This Journalist Covered Gun Violence…and It Almost Cost Him His Life

Season 2025 Episode 8003 | 18m 06s

Trymaine Lee is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has dedicated his life and career to exploring the intersection between Black life and politics. Lee's new book "A Thousand Ways to Die" covers gun violence and systemic racism. The author joins Michel Martin to explain how reporting on traumatic topics takes a toll.

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