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    SB6 Extra: Leading Up to the Riots

    SB6 Extra: Leading Up to the Riots

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    SB6 Extra: Leading Up to the Riots

    FromSlow Burn

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    Length:
    23 minutes
    Released:
    Dec 1, 2021
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    This week, we're highlighting a few excerpts from this season's Slate Plus episodes—interviews with George Holliday, professor Edward Chang, L.A. Times journalist Jim Newton, and Rodney King’s best friend Johnnie Kelly—all who help to explain the cultural and social tensions building in Los Angeles in the 1980s and 1990s.
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    Released:
    Dec 1, 2021
    Format:
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    In the late 1980s and early 1990s, a white supremacist became an American political phenomenon. David Duke’s rise to power and prominence—his election to the Louisiana legislature, and then his campaigns for the U.S. Senate and the governorship—was an existential crisis for the state and the nation. The fourth season of Slate’s Slow Burn will explore how a Nazi sympathizer and former Klansman fashioned himself into a mainstream figure, and why some voters came to embrace his message. It will also examine how activists, journalists, and ordinary citizens confronted Duke’s candidacy, and what it took to stop him.