America’s brutal racist past still has a hold on the present—in the most tragic way. A new study published in the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities found that counties with the highest rates of lynchings between 1877 and 1950 had higher mortality rates between 2010 and 2014. Whil...
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