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Outlook: Black American Befriends the KKK

Daryl Davis

16/12/2013

Black American Befriends the KKK

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How Daryl Davis - a black American musician - befriended members of the Ku Klux Klan

How Daryl Davis - an African-American musician - made friends with members of the Ku Klux Klan and managed to persuade some of them to leave the organisation.

Daryl Davis, an African-American musician, explains how he made friends with members of the Ku Klux Klan - and even managed to persuade some of them to leave the organisation.

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Tunisian street artist, Karim Jabbari talks about painting a mural on the wall of the prison where his father was held. And, we hear from a Somali lawyer who tracked down the man who had tortured him and won a landmark case against him.

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