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Watch: New Documentary Film Explores a Lynching and a Police Killing 78 Years Apart - KFF Health News

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Summary
Nutrition label

89% Informative

In 1942 , 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.

The film breaks the silence and shares the stories of these men’s families, community members, and police to uncover the consequences of this trauma.

VR Score

89

Informative language

88

Neutral language

93

Article tone

formal

Language

English

Language complexity

60

Offensive language

possibly offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

medium-lived

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