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Monitor editors hear from a lot of writers who are eager to break into our pages. Many of them we just canât accommodate.
But when I opened my email this past June, a proposal from a potential columnist stopped me in my tracks.
No one at the Monitor had ever heard of Ken Makin before he reached out to us. But as I read through his proposal, I was struck by the feeling that I was talking to a Monitor journalist â we just hadnât met him yet.
By now, of course, many of our subscribers know Kenâs work. He has become a frequent contributor since that initial column on the historical roots of the rage and frustration that we saw spilling onto the streets in the wake of George Floydâs killing.Â
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