As podcasts. Host hello, how are you . Guest im grateful for you during this. Host to give the audience the opportunity to get to know the bestselling author wes moore author of ims before, and the new book that couldnt have been more timely. Youve covered the book with part of the team that was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for breaking News Coverage of the death of freddie gray and at the event that followed. This book is a beautiful way to understand what happened to freddie gray, whats happened to baltimore and what happens in black and white america, how the lives that connect us in the own truths and half spoken truths and incomplete stories stop us from being one community and most importantly, five days is a way to think about the reckoning in america. Im pleased ti am pleased to bee this conversation with you. Guest thank you. Host lets start by talking about the young man whose life was taken from us, freddie gray. The book begins with with your attending the funeral
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