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How to heal African-Americans' traumatic history

  • Written by Taasogle Daryl Rowe, Professor of Psychology, Pepperdine University
Names of lynching victims at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Ala.AP/Brynn Anderson

Do you smell it? That foul odor that floats in the air, when something you thought was dead is unearthed.

That’s the smell of ole man Jim Crow crawling back into our daily lives.

One of the most horrendous and abhorrent forms of Jim...

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