Is the History of Lynching in America a "Divisive Concept"?
Yesterday the United States Senate passed The Emmett Till Antilynching Act. After over 100 years and nearly 200 attempts by Congress, lynchings will now be investigated and prosecuted as a federal hate crime. You may be wondering what took so long.
More specifically, our students may wonder out loud in classrooms across the country today, why it took so …
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