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Podcast: The Lean to the Left Podcast
Episode: Why is Lynching NOT a Federal Crime?
Description: After slavery was abolished, lynching emerged as a vicious tool of racial control to reestablish white supremacy and suppress black civil rights. More than 4,000 African Americans were lynched across 20 states between 1877 and 1950, according to “Lynching in America” from the Equal Justice Initiative.These lynchings were public acts of racial terrorism, intended to instill fear in entire black communities, and government officials often turned a blind eye or condoned the mob violence.The effects of racial terror lynchings are still being felt today, the Equal Justice Institute points out. And yet, there are those who would turn a blind eye to this...