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Grisly Hanging Deaths of Three Black Men in Two Weeks Hark Back to Terror of Lynchings Past

Ebone Monet and Antonio Ray Harvey | California Black Media Author and investigative journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett, a staunch crusader against lynching at the turn of the last century, would likely have been included among the hundreds of thousands of people calling for a thorough investigation into recent hanging deaths of two Black men in California and another in New York. Wells-Barnett (July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931) led one of the most aggressive anti-lynching campaigns through the […]

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