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Micaela Diamond and Ben Platt during the opening night curtain call for "Parade" at New York City Center on November 01, 2022 in New York City. (Bruce Glikas/WireImage/Getty Images)

Ben Platt vs neo-Nazi Broadway protest

Joy Saha
Mrs Mamie Bradley (center) reacts as the body of her son, Emmett Till, is lowered into his grave during the funeral, September 1955. (The Abbott Sengstacke Family Papers/Robert Abbott Sengstacke/Getty Images)

"Till," the ongoing quest for Emmett

Brandon M. Erby - The Conversation
Donald Trump | People participate in the “Million MAGA March” from Freedom Plaza to the Supreme Court, on November 14, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump's racist fantasies — and history

Chauncey DeVega
A demonstrator holds a sign at the Glynn County Courthouse as jury selection begins in the trial of the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery on October 18, 2021 in Brunswick, Georgia. Three white men are accused of chasing down and murdering Arbery in southeastern Georgia last year. (Sean Rayford/Getty Images)

Ahmaud Arbery and American justice

Chauncey DeVega
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Tucker Carlson (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Tucker's latest appalling anti-vax rant

Bob Brigham - Raw Story
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Rand Paul blocks anti-lynching bill

Igor Derysh
Protesters gather in a call for justice for George Floyd, a black man who died after a white policeman kneeled on his neck for several minutes, at Hennepin County Government Plaza, on May 28, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (KEREM YUCEL/AFP via Getty Images)

A lynching without a rope, in 2020

Lucian K. Truscott IV
Bill Bar, Devin Nunes, and Donald Trump (Getty Images/AP Photo/Salon)

Will the GOP erase Trump from history?

Amanda Marcotte
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Donald Trump (AP Photo/Getty Images/Salon)

Trump, impeachment and lynching

Chauncey DeVega
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice honoring thousands of people killed in racist lynchings is seen. (AP/Brynn Anderson)

Maryland's truth commission on lynchings

Kelebogile Zvobgo - The Conversation
Bryan Stevenson (Nina Subin)

Racial justice: Work is "just beginning"

Rachel Leah

How racist is the death penalty?

Rachel Leah
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Colin Kaepernick (Getty/Scott Cunningham)

"Lynch Kaepernick" doormat fronts bar

Leigh C. Anderson
Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee Monument (WikiMedia)

Call for lynching in Missouri

Matthew Rozsa
(Wikimedia Commons)

The missing monuments

Jessica Wang - BillMoyers.com

the origins of strange fruit

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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LaGrange Public Safety Chief Lou Dekmar, right, talks to reporters following a 2015 meeting of law enforcement agencies to discuss best practices when investigating officer-involved shootings. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

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Protester, Baltimore, April 25, 2015. (Reuters/Sait Serkan Gurbuz)

America is back to lynching

Ericka Schiche

Joanna Rothkopf
(Reuters/Mario Anzuoni)

Lynching era's reign of terror

Jack Shuler
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When America behaved like ISIS

Bill Moyers - BillMoyers.com
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