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Responding to Racism

In Memphis, A Movement To Mark Lynching Sites

As racial tensions continue to make headlines around the country, one group in Memphis has banded together to take action. Sharon Pavelda, a founding member of Responding to Racism, joins Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson to explain the group’s push to mark the sites of lynchings that happened in the past – as a way to move forward.

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Memphis group joins effort to identify, memorialize all lynching sites in the South

A local church-based group is working to locate and memorialize the site of every post-Civil War lynching in Shelby County.

The group, which is calling itself "Responding to Racism," is led by three retirees, all white and all members of First Congregational Church.

Rev. Randall Mullins, a retired United Church of Christ minister, sent an email to more than a dozen local clergy on Friday asking them to join the effort and recruit others.

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