The Cold After

Feature · Thriller · 106 pages
A Black journalist returns to Mississippi to finish her mother’s investigation into a civil rights murder—only to uncover a white power conspiracy so deep that even exposing it serves the system.
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Finalist, Harvardwood Writers Competition 2025

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Jason Bryan Silverstein writes about racism, history, and power. He teaches global health and history of science at Harvard and co-directs the Media, Medicine, and Health program at Harvard Medical School. He has written more than a hundred essays for The New York Times, The Atlantic, GQ, and others. His script, The Cold After, appears on The Black ...
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