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This week, we bring you a conversation with the 2016 winner of The Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism. Each year the award is given to journalists whose books have brought clarity and public attention to important issues, events, or policies. This year's winner, Jill Leovy, explores the country's murder epidemic and the long-standing plague of black homicide in her bestselling book, "Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America." In this conversation with NYPL's Jessica Strand, Leovy talks about race, violence, and the search for justice in the face of tragedy.
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This week, we bring you a conversation with the 2016 winner of The Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism. Each year the award is given to journalists whose books have brought clarity and public attention to important issues, events, or policies. This year's winner, Jill Leovy, explores the country's murder epidemic and the long-standing plague of black homicide in her bestselling book, "Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America." In this conversation with NYPL's Jessica Strand, Leovy talks about race, violence, and the search for justice in the face of tragedy.

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