The prologue is a story within h storiits about the 19 65 wats revolt, which started from a car stop si. The structure was in my head when i started the arbury piece. There's sort of there ends up being sort of four strands in the story. And then clearly, you know, trying to show who he was. Because i think every time a human is murdered, they immediately just become that murder we get all the details of george floyd's murder but we don't necessarily get people riting about or what was his daughter like, and his friends and a, i was really committed to that.
Mitchell S. Jackson is a journalist and author. His profile of Ahmaud Arbery, ”Twelve Minutes and a Life,” won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.
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