More than 5,000 Black people have been lynched in the US. Peter Dazeley/The Image Bank via Getty Images by Rob Wells, University of Maryland Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching. Title of course: Lynching and the Press What prompted the idea for the course? One of … Continued

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