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Congress Passes Historic Anti-Lynching Legislation

Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior CorrespondentMarch 5, 2020

Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) called lynchings racially-motivated acts of violence and terror that represent a dark and despicable chapter of our nation’s history. 
“They were acts against people who should have received justice but did not. With this bill, we can change that by explicitly criminalizing lynching under federal law,” noted Harris, who suspended her presidential campaign late last year. 

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#ACCESS901: Memoir Provides Lens to ‘See’ Cyntoia Brown-Long

Joy Doss, Special to the New Tri-State DefenderOctober 18, 2019

As for “Young Cyntoia” specifically, “I would tell her, you don’t know half the things that you think you know,” she said. “I thought I knew better than my mother and anyone else around me. You couldn’t tell me anything! I would tell (Young Cyntoia), ‘you have no idea what life is really about. You’re not equipped, you’re not ready…to be grown… God has it so you’re in your home with your parents for a reason… so you learn the ways of the world.’”