Buried Truths Podcast Investigates and Explores the Ahmaud Arbery Case

The third season of the Peabody Award-winning podcast, Buried Truth host Hank Klibanoff investigates what happened when Ahmaud Arbery.

Arbery was taking a jog in the residential streets of Brunswick, GA when white neighbors decided to trap and ultimately kill him.

A prosecutor declared that no arrest should be made.

And when community members demanded, and kept demanding, justice.

Buried Truths explores Ahmaud Arbery case

Across the seven episodes, Klibanoff says he applies the same lens through which he’s investigated and analyzed other cases of racial injustice from the modern civil rights era.

Klibanoff and his undergraduate students at Emory University have spent the summer reviewing the evidence, researching the history, connecting with those who knew 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery, and others who grew up in the racial climate that produced the men charged with the shooting death of Arbery — Greg McMichael, Travis McMichael and William “Roddie” Bryan.

Ahmaud Arbery episode

The story of Ahmaud Arbery bears witness to the long history of racial injustice in the American South — and to the civil rights activism and perseverance that brought worldwide attention to coastal Georgia.

“We started with one or two episodes in mind, but my students’ research and interviews produced more and more discoveries that just wouldn’t let go of us and wouldn’t let us stop,” said Klibanoff, the Pulitzer-Prize winning host of Buried Truths who also leads the Georgia Civil Rights Cold Cases Project at Emory University.

“The primary characters – victim and perpetrators – have roots that go back to America’s original sin, slavery, so we had a lot of ground to cover and surprising stories to tell. If you thought we were well past the master-slave mentality, please listen.”

With season three, Buried Truths podcast continues to share a powerful story of injustice and resistance, and it evolves from being a narrative history podcast to one with a laser focus on the discontent, anguish, and dialogue of the present.

How to listen to the podcast

Episodes are available for download beginning Wednesday, September 16th.