Unmasking the Shadows: Cerise Castle on Deputy Gangs and Justice

Join us on the latest episode of the Strangest Fruit Podcast as one of the most important journalists of our generation, Cerise Castle, sits down with Didontae Farmer.

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Cerise Castle is a Los Angeles-based journalist specializing in arts & culture, civil rights, criminal justice, and human interest stories. She is renowned for writing the first history of deputy gangs inside the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and for creating, producing, and hosting “A Tradition of Violence,” a podcast detailing the history and criminal activity of these gangs. Her groundbreaking reporting earned her the 2022 International Women in Media Foundation’s Courage Award, the American Journalism Online Award for Best Use of Public Records, and the American Mosaic Journalism Prize. In 2024, Castle was a Poynter Fellow at Yale University.

Castle has produced and hosted segments for the Emmy-award-winning nightly news program, VICE News Tonight, NPR, and the nationally syndicated radio program Marketplace. She has also produced podcast series for Audible, iHeartMedia, and Wondery. Her reporting and commentary have been featured in ABC, Autre, Capital & Main, The Daily Beast, The Los Angeles Times, The LAnd, Los Angeles Magazine, MTV, National Public Radio (NPR), Salon, and Vanity Fair.

Tune in for an insightful and revealing conversation that dives deep into Cerise Castle’s impactful work and the vital issues she covers. Don’t miss this compelling episode!

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