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Buried Truths is a podcast hosted by Hank Klibanoff and produced by WABE.

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Background

Buried Truths and Political Breakfast were the first two podcasts started by WABE. [1] [2] Buried Truths is a history podcast. [3] The first season debuted on March 26, 2018 and was six episodes long. [4] The first season discussed Dover V. Carter and Isaiah Nixon. [5] Klibanoff had previously written about the Nixon case in his Pulitzer Prize winning book entitled The Race Beat . [6] [7] The podcast was renewed for a second season in 2019. [8] The third season of the podcast discusses the killing of Ahmaud Arbery. [9] [10] Klibanoff was nominated by Joe Biden to be a member of the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board. [11] Klibanoff is the director of the Georgia Civil Rights Cold Cases Project at Emory University [12] The podcast is created by Klibanoff and his students. [13] The podcast won a Peabody award in 2018. [14] [15] [16] The podcast won the 2021 Silver Gavel Award. [17] The podcast won an Edward R. Murrow Award in 2020. [18] The podcast won a 2019 Robert F. Kennedy Award. [19] [20] [21]

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