Say Its Name
On Lynching and the mob that stormed the Capitol
Every day I get an email about lynching.
It arrives in the early afternoon, slides between announcements of school Covid closures, work projects, bills due. The email comes from a Google alert: a tool that crawls the web and gathers every news story in which the word “lynching” appears.
I created the alert years ago while I w…
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