Disturbing. Shocking. Barbaric.
Oprah Winfrey‘s latest 60 Minutes report gave the public an unflinching first look at the Alabama lynching memorial in Montgomery; a space meant to recognize the thousands of victims who were lynched during the seven decades following the Civil War.
Included (without warning) were pictures of actual lynching victims, Black bodies hanging from trees like the Strange Fruit Nina Simone so hauntingly sang about.
Source: Necessary Evil: Why Oprah Winfrey’s ’60 Minutes’ report aired photos of lynchings
