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According to the non-profit Equal Justice Institute, more than 4,700 people, most of them African-Americans, were reported lynched in the United States between 1882 and 1968. With few exceptions, the perpetrators escaped punishment by state and local officials. And for more than a century, every attempt to get a Federal anti-lynching law through Congress failed. Including now there’s resistance to getting it passed even in light of the murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matters protests.

To learn about why a Federal anti-lynching law is imperative, host Sheryl McCarthy welcomes Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, Professor of Constitutional Law at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and author of “Race, Law and American Society: 1607 to Present.”

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