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Eastern Standard - July 30, 2020

The descendants of the accuser and the lynched sit down in Paris, Kentucky for a courageous conversation. ES was there. | “I pray that this is not just a moment, but a movement.” The co-chairs of Lexington’s Commission for Racial Justice & Equality lay out goals | “Future Tense” host Chris Begley with Frank X Walker on the convergence of a pandemic and civil and economic unrest. 

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