A Black NPR Host Interviewed a Racist and Twitter Sharpened Its Pitchforks and Came for Her

Almost immediately after the interview aired, the complaints came rolling in.by Katie HerzogNPR headquarters in D.C. Getty Images
A year after the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, left one counter-protester dead and a nation reeling, Noel King, a host of National Public Radio’s flagship news program Morning Edition, interviewed Jason Kessler, an organizer of the deadly rally, on the radio last week.It did not, if you believe the criticism, go well.King prefaced the inter