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On The Road with Farai Chideya: Birmingham

A highlight of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute: the jail cell bars behind which the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. penned his "Letter from Birmingham Jail" in 1963.
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A highlight of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute: the jail cell bars behind which the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. penned his "Letter from Birmingham Jail" in 1963.

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Farai Chideya
Farai Chideya is a multimedia journalist who has worked in print, television, online, and radio. Prior to joining NPR's News & Notes, Chideya hosted Your Call, a daily news and cultural call-in show on San Francisco's KALW 91.7 FM. Chideya has also been a correspondent for ABC News, anchored the prime time program Pure Oxygen on the Oxygen women's channel, and contributed commentaries to CNN, Fox, MSNBC, and BET. She got her start as a researcher and reporter at Newsweek magazine. In 1997 Newsweek named her to its "Century Club" of 100 people to watch.
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