In this episode of the Fugitive Farmer True Crime Podcast, author and journalist Jack Lessenberry discusses his recently published book "Reason vs. Racism: A Newspaper Family, Race and Justice." Thoroughly researched, the book examines how a chain of newspapers owned by the Block family covered issues related to race from the 1910s to the election of Barack Obama and beyond. Along the way, Lessenberry weaves in historical vignettes ranging from the notorious June 1920 lynching of three Black men in Duluth, Minnesota, to the 1920s-era heroism of Tom Lee, a Black man who saved 32 white people from drowning after an overloaded excursion boat capsized in the Mississippi River. Block lionized Lee in his newspapers, only to get nasty pushback from white racists. https://lessenberryink.com/ https://www.amazon.com/Reason-vs-Racism-Jack-Lessenberry-ebook/dp/B08WJRC8R1