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  • Stop Invisible Lynchings in America

    Ben Chavis Jr, NNPA President|Apr 4, 2019

    No form of lynching should be tolerated or permitted in America. A lynching is defined as putting a person or a group of people to death by hanging a person or group with or without legal due process. However, in the not so distant past, the hideous act of racially-motivated lynching African Americans was considered legal, judicial and moral under state and federal laws. The Congress of the United States finally has a bill pending enactment that makes lynching a federal crime. We support this...