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[https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1219830874 by npr 16/12/24] | [https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1219830874 by npr 16/12/24] | ||
EMILY KWONG: One quick note before we begin, Short Wavers. This episode talks about racial violence and references a lynching. You're listening to Short Wave from NPR. Hey, Short Wavers. It's Emily Kwong. And today I am joined by one of KFF Health News's Midwest correspondents, Cara Anthony. Cara, it is really good to have you here. | EMILY KWONG: One quick note before we begin, Short Wavers. This episode talks about racial violence and references a lynching. You're listening to Short Wave from NPR. Hey, Short Wavers. It's Emily Kwong. And today I am joined by one of KFF Health News's Midwest correspondents, Cara Anthony. Cara, it is really good to have you here. | ||
=====I investigated my own family for their history of lynching===== | |||
[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/26/i-investigated-my-own-family-for-their-history-of-lynching by Karen Branan 26/4/18 The Guardian] | |||
“The hanging,” she replied without pause. She told me of a woman and some men “hanged” in the open, downtown, “for a murder”. | |||
She was 17 at the time, living in Hamilton, Georgia. I thought she was talking about white people found guilty under law, so I let it be. Something in me was not yet ready to descend that deep staircase into my grandparents’ and the nation’s bloody basement. | |||
