workers, and kept asking how much they got paid, how many hours they worked,” Jerelyn recalls. “She couldn’t probe him enough. She kept saying, ‘I can’t believe they only get twenty-five cents an hour. I just can’t believe it.’” Jerelyn thinks that some kind of alarm went off in Marie’s head that day. “I had never seen her ask questions like that before. I think it was the moment she became a journalist.”
