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===== What 100 Years of History Tells Us About Racism in Policing ===== | ===== What 100 Years of History Tells Us About Racism in Policing ===== | ||
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[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] | [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. | “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. | ||
===== Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves’ ===== | ===== Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves’ ===== | ||
