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No. 16--Carol Jenkins.mp3
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Carol Jenkins is a writer, producer, and Emmy award-winning former television anchor and correspondent. She spent 30 years with newspaper departments throughout New York City, hosted her own talk show, and is also president of the Women’s Media Center. She speaks here in the voice of Ida B. Wells, a former slave who fled to New York City after her newspaper "Free Speech" -- which exposed lynchings in her hometown of Memphis -- was destroyed by a mob.