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I'm your host, Jason Johnson.

After more than 100 years and more than 200 attempts,

they built to make lynching a federal hate crime past Congress this week.

It's called comfort to the survivors of lynching victim.

But could this moment help erase dangerous myths about its history?

I think it moves us a step closer in the right direction.

You know, just being a student of history, you see that it takes a very long time

for societies to change and they change incrementally because you always have to push back.

And so I think it's just another step forward in our evolution to becoming an equal society.

The history of lynching and the fight to stop it coming up on a word with me, Jason Johnson.

Stay with us.

Welcome to a word, a podcast about race, in politics, and everything else.

I'm your host, Jason Johnson.

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