This week on True Crime Reports.

George Stinney was the youngest American in the 20th century to be electrocated to death.

He was accused of murdering two white girls without any evidence.

What does his story tell us about the US justice system and the ways it continues to systematically fail African Americans.

Find out on the next true crime reports.

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Every morning when I wake up, I look in the mirror and I see, I see that my skin is oily, that my eyes are still red with sleep.

I see that my hair is nappy and my beard is unkempt. I look for beauty.

But I see a man who is sometimes considered less than human.

I see a man who has been homeless, who has been hungry, who has slept on park benches and in apartments with no electricity.

I see a man who has been the only black person in his entire world,

who has been told he has evil in his eyes,

that he is too loud, that he is too big,

that he makes white people feel unsafe.

I look in the mirror, and I see a father and a friend and a magazine writer.

I see a man who once worked 26 hours straight, fueled only by coffee, water, and a vape pen.

I see a man who prays daily, who makes a list every night of all the things in his life

for which he is grateful, his health, having a bed, a job, two children who are alive and beautiful.

I look in the mirror, and I see a man with a past, living among a people who have a past in a country that has a past.

I see a man who, like the nation that birthed him, has up until today, always looked toward the future, always pretended the past isn't there, or that it doesn't matter.

But it is, and it does.

And now, in order to go forward, I see a man and a country that has to face it.

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