Daryl Davis: the black musician who converts Ku Klux Klan members | Curio

Daryl Davis: the black musician who converts Ku Klux Klan members

10 mins | Aug 2, 2022

He changes minds by sitting down and talking to them at dinner. After an encounter with a KKK member in the 1980s, an accomplished pianist turned his focus to curing racism through education. Morena Duwe tells the fascinating story of Daryl Davis and how he has spent the past 30 years befriending Klansmen, which led to many of them leaving the hate group. Here she explores what it took for this to happen.

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