Best Of: Fighting for free press in Russia / ‘Fear and Fury’

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I'm Tanya Mosley. Today, filmmaker Julia Lakhtev. Her latest documentary follows independent Russian journalists in the months leading up to, and just after, Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The film has arrived in the US at a moment when questions about press freedom feel newly present. Every day it feels like there is something.

To bring the story home for Americans where it almost feels like there's Easter eggs in the film that become more and more relevant every day. Also, historian Heather Ann Thompson revisits a 1984 New York City subway shooting when Bernard Goetz, a white man, shot Four black teenagers. In the days that followed, Getz became a hometown hero. Up will become down, down will become up, and that also felt very, very familiar to where we are today.

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