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4 days ago · By Cara Anthony September 25, 2024. KFF Health News Midwest correspondent Cara Anthony sat down with WORLD executive producer Chris Hastings to discuss the origins of the “Silence in Sikeston” project, which explores the impact of a 1942 lynching and a 2020 police shooting on a rural Missouri community. The collaboration with Retro Report ...
Sep 3, 2024 · Sikeston is a town in Missouri with a population of 16,146. Sikeston is in Scott County. Living in Sikeston offers residents a sparse suburban feel and most residents own their homes. Many families and retirees live in Sikeston and residents tend to lean conservative.
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4 days ago · Missouri's 8th congressional district is one of 435 congressional districts in the United States and one of eight congressional districts in the state of Missouri. The district encompasses rural Southeast Missouri and South Central Missouri as well as some counties in Southwest Missouri.
Sep 13, 2024 · Silence in Sikeston explores what it means to live with racism and violence, told from a Missouri community where two Black men were killed nearly 80 years apart.
Sep 17, 2024 · In 1942, a young Black man named Cleo Wright was removed from a Sikeston, Missouri, jail and lynched by a white mob. Nearly 80 years later, another young Black man, Denzel Taylor, was shot at least 18 times by police in the same small community.
Sep 16, 2024 · In 1942, Cleo Wright was lynched by a white mob before Sikeston, Missouri's Black community. Wright's death was the first federally investigated lynching but not before 3,842 had occurred around the country.
Sep 10, 2024 · More than 80 years later, residents of Sikeston still find it difficult to talk about the lynching. Conversations with Cook, one of the few remaining witnesses of the lynching, launch a...
