This story ran on the CBS Evening News on January 5.

Alabama’s Tuskegee News has never had a journalist like Amy Miller. She lives more than 1,000 miles from Tuskegee, and from fellow journalist Guy Trammell — with whom she shares a twice-monthly column called “Color Us Connected.”

“I had this idea … about doing a column from a White perspective and trying to match it with somebody doing it from a Black perspective,” Miller said.

Their column also runs in the newspaper covering Miller’s community in South Berwick, Maine.

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