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A Word: Lynching’s Legacy - Emmett Till to George Floyd

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How Has Lynching Changed?

A hundred years ago, it was a big spectacle. To day, when we hear about black people being lynched, often the problem is some one's body is found and there is nobody there. So how is lynching changed in our modern society? That is significantly more observed and recorded? And yet, oftentimes the perpetrators of this violence disappear into the night. It's made it more difficult to fight because it has gone kind of underground. Now it's not in your face, and you know what's happening. But you don't know what'm happening. The job almost has made the job harder. By making so much progress, it's almost made it harder to root out the

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