{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/695ed31524334d02345bdb78/695ed33be06ab03ba366b511?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Lynching’s Legacy: Emmett Till to George Floyd","description":"<p>This week, Congress passed the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act to make lynching a federal crime. It’s named for Emmett Till, a Chicago teenager who was brutally killed in Mississippi in 1955. On today’s episode of A Word, Jason Johnson is joined by historian Lopez Matthews, Jr. to discuss the harmful myths about lynching, and how its specter haunts African Americans to this day.</p><p>Guest: <a href=\"https://twitter.com/drpezster\">Lopez Matthews, Jr.</a> is an executive council member for the <a href=\"https://mobile.twitter.com/asalh\">Association for the Study of African American Life and History</a></p><p>Podcast production by Jasmine Ellis</p><p>Y<em>ou can skip all the ads in A Word by joining Slate Plus. Sign up now at </em><a href=\"http://slate.com/awordplus\"><em>slate.com/awordplus</em></a><em> for just $1 for your first month.</em></p><p> </p>","author_name":"Slate Podcasts"}