After more than 100 years of efforts to pass anti-lynching legislation, Congress finally voted to declare it a federal crime. We talk about why it's taken so long, the social dynamics of lynching, and what relevance the new law has today.
Links
[1] https://www.wpr.org/programs/central-time
[2] https://www.wpr.org/people/derrell-connor
[3] https://www.wpr.org/people/chad-dion-lassiter
[4] https://www.wpr.org/people/dean-knetter