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This is Barry Truths. I'm Hank Clibinov.

Dorothy Nixon watched as her father was shot. She watched as her mother struggled to raise a family

of six. As Dorothy Nixon grew into adulthood, she'd go on to college. She'd become a psychiatric nurse.

She'd get a master's degree, and she'd raise a family of her own. But she fought against sadness

against a tendency to pull away from others. And yes, anger.

Today, in her 70s, the memory of what happened to her father is still vivid. It's still haunts,

and it still hurts. I don't remember crying. I was just sitting there like

angry trying to understand why would somebody kill my dad?

Now, Dorothy would be a grown woman before realizing that all those years,

she belonged to a large community of black families who had lost fathers, mothers,

other family members to racially motivated violence. Families that never experienced one minute of justice.

Over the past 25, 30 years, many of those cases came to be known through the work of journalists.

They investigated and published their findings, especially when it was clear that the clan and

other perpetrators got away with murder. This work led to some fresh criminal investigations and

prosecutions. It also led to enough convictions that in 2006, the United States Attorney General

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