The leader of the top opposition party in France's National Assembly has joined numerous other lawmakers in raising the alarm about the horrific case of Louis of Narbonne — a white 17-year-old foster kid who was ambushed on the night of June 19 and effectively left for dead by several individuals.
"Louis, 17 years old, was lynched to death with unimaginable violence, filmed by his gleeful assailants, left to agonize through an entire night, and found lifeless on a construction site in Narbonne," Jordan Bardella, president of the National Rally party, wrote on Wednesday.
'This everyday barbarity that can no longer be minimized, downplayed, or concealed.'
"He is the symbol of a country adrift, undermined by a barbarization that neither the laxity nor the blindness of our leaders can halt," continued Bardella. "We must dare to break with 30 years of failures if we are to restore order in France."
The suspects — a diverse crew who reportedly knew one another from child welfare facilities — filmed themselves at an under-construction seniors residence punching and kicking in the head of the dying teenager.
The nightmarish footage — which one of the attackers reportedly shared on social media — not only shows the thugs' relentless attacks on the already-unconscious boy but also shows suspects posing for pictures beside the dying teen, whose agonal breathing can be heard throughout.
According to the French investigative outlet Frontières, the family authorized the release of the footage "in order to challenge the version put forward by some media outlets describing it as a mere 'brawl.'"
Frontières noted further that "despite the pain, his loved ones refuse anonymity and want the truth to be known."
La Montagne reported that one of the suspects sent the footage to an acquaintance who, seeing the attack and the boy's injuries, promptly alerted the Aude Departmental Fire and Rescue Service. Since the concerned caller allegedly didn't know where Louis had been attacked, first responders were unable to swiftly locate and rescue the boy.
David Leyraud, national supervisor of the Police Alliance, said that Louis was ultimately found on Saturday morning by a construction worker.
Jean-Philippe Rey, the prosecutor of the Republic of Narbonne, said that "when they arrived, the firefighters took the victim, still unconscious. He had bruises in the eyes, multiple bruises on the forehead as well as bleeding in the mouth and nose."
The victim was placed in an artificial coma and succumbed to his injuries on Tuesday.
'While our children are dying, our leaders look the other way.'
Louis was placed in a child welfare facility in May. According to records obtained by L'Indépendant, he filed a complaint with police on May 22 alleging assault by a group. Earlier this month, he filed another complaint — this time accompanied by his youth worker — alleging yet another attack.
One of the suspects allegedly conspired with the other four suspects and lured Louis — who had recently secured a job offer and was set to leave child welfare services — to the construction site in Narbonne on false pretenses, reported L'Indépendant. At the destination, the thugs ambushed the teen.
On the basis of the viral footage, phone records, and the insights provided by the individual who first alerted authorities to the attack — and who contacted authorities with more information after allegedly being threatened by one of the attackers — police arrested and charged five individuals with attempted murder.
The suspects are between the ages of 16 and 19, a senior police officer said. They have been placed in pre-trial detention.
The two adult suspects were previously on the radar of police for alleged minor offenses, including theft and drug use, reported L'Indépendant.
While some of the suspects allegedly gave partial admissions about their roles in the attack, most reportedly claimed ignorance of the plot and said they were just following the others.
Investigators ruled out a racist motive in the attack, according to L'Indépendant, which reported: "The initial findings, resulting from the rapid investigation, in any case rule out a racist motive, as some people hastily suggested."
When asked for more information about the suspects, the Préfecture de l'Aude told Blaze News an investigation is underway. Blaze News has reached out to the Narbonne Public Prosecutor's Office and the City of Narbonne for comment.
One of the victim's friends told Frontières, "I am in a nightmare. I am struggling to believe that Louis is gone."
"While our children are dying, our leaders look the other way," Julien Leonardelli, a National Rally member who serves as a member of the European Parliament, wrote in the wake of Louis' death.
Marine Le Pen, co-founder and parliamentary leader of the National Rally party, wrote, "The ordeal of young Louis, 17 years old, lynched in Narbonne, breaks the heart and fuels immense anger among the French in the face of this everyday barbarity that can no longer be minimized, downplayed, or concealed."
"Through endlessly refusing to swiftly and effectively punish acts of delinquency, those in power, backed by the left and the far left, have sent a disastrous message: that of permanent impunity," continued Le Pen.
The National Rally leader stressed that 2027 — when France will hold its next presidential election — will mark an end to "this savagery and this unbearable ultraviolence."
The news of yet another brutal slaying of a young teen by remorseless individuals quickly crossed the Atlantic.
BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey wrote, "The video of that poor boy in France, Louis, is too much to bear. Why is it the same kinds of people *everywhere* who commit these acts of subhuman violence? Truly animalistic monsters. God help us."
While multitudes around the world condemned the boy's lynching, Raphaël Arnault — a leftist activist who serves in the National Assembly as a member of the radical France Unbowed party — downplayed the attack, noting, "For years this kind of tragedy has existed for young people left abandoned," and complaining about "the media uproar and the racist horrors of the far right."
A march is planned in Narbonne this weekend in remembrance of the victim.
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Actress Pam Grier revealed to the ladies of “The View” that as a child, she witnessed a lynched body hanging from a tree in Columbus, Ohio.
“My mom would go, ‘Don’t look, don’t look, don’t look,’ and she’d pull us away because there was someone hanging from a tree,” Grier explained as the audience gasped. “And they have a memorial for it now where you can see where people were and left. And it triggers me today to see that a voice can be silenced and if a white family supported a black, they’re going to get burned down or killed or lynched as well.”
And Grier isn’t the only one talking about lynching in 2026.
“Honestly, they about to outlaw the idea of white supremacy and white hate. Like, they are about to be like, ‘Oh, that’s not a thing.’ Forget the fact that you’re talking about getting rid of, like, the classification for nooses in a time in which we have seen these random black bodies be strung up down south,” Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) said in a recent video.
She went on to claim that Trump is emboldening white people to “take off their hoods.”
BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock isn’t surprised, but he is a little disturbed.
“There’s the audience gasping. ... The truth is irrelevant. Everything is emotional. Everything’s just, say whatever you want, and we’ve got to live with your delusion,” Whitlock says.
“I think Pam Grier is 76 years old. That means she was born around 1950. The last documented lynching, I believe, in Ohio, was 1911. Lynching just hasn’t been a thing since the 1920s or ’30s,” he continues.
“And this will be real controversial ... but I’m standing on this and saying that this whole lynching thing — completely exaggerated. Completely exaggerated. Just like police shootings, completely exaggerated,” he adds.
Whitlock points out that while many black people now fear the police, they’re far more likely to be killed by someone who is also black than by a police officer.
“There’s been so much propaganda around it, but when you’re black, when we black people in the 1910s, 1920s, 1930s — they weren’t sitting around living in fear. ‘Oh, the KKK is coming, and they’re going to kill me,’” Whitlock says.
“Did it happen occasionally? Yes. No different than very occasionally the police kill someone in the black community unfairly, but if you’re going to die violently in any community, it’s going to be someone that lives in your community that does it,” he explains.
“If I had been in that audience when Pam Grier said that, I would have shouted out, ‘That’s a lie.’ I literally would have shouted out, ‘That’s a lie,’” he adds.
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A young black man died in a rural area of Vance County, North Carolina, but the media has apparently used details of his death to advance a racial narrative.
Around 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Vance County deputies were notified about a body located near Vanco Mill Road just outside Henderson, North Carolina, a city of 15,000 residents about 45 miles north of Raleigh.
'The young man was not dangling from a tree. He was not swinging from a tree. The rope was wrapped around his neck. It was not a noose. There was not a knot in the rope.'
Though the deceased man had no ID on him, investigators later learned that his name was Javion Magee, a 21-year-old truck driver from the Chicago area. He was found sitting with his back against a "medium-sized" tree and a rope around his neck. The other end of the rope was affixed to the tree.
The detail about the rope sparked many sensational headlines. "Black man found dead with rope around his neck, NC sheriff says," read the headline from WCNC. "Black man found dead against tree with rope around his neck in NC: 'Not a lynching,' sheriff says," said another from ABC11.
The News & Observer went even further and referenced lynching in its headline, even as the outlet noted Magee's death may in fact be a suicide: "As suspicions swell that Black man was lynched in NC, warrant outlines evidence of suicide."
Unfortunately, the evidence released so far does suggest Magee may have taken his own life. Sheriff Curtis Brame told ABC11 that Magee had driven a truckload to a Walmart distribution center hours before his death and then apparently gone to a Walmart store to purchase several items, including the rope later found draped around his neck.
"There's been information put out there that there's a lynching in Vance County," Brame said. "There is not a lynching in Vance County. The young man was not dangling from a tree. He was not swinging from a tree. The rope was wrapped around his neck. It was not a noose. There was not a knot in the rope, so therefore, it was not a lynching here in Vance County."
Brame, who is black, further insisted that Magee's body did not appear to be "disfigured in any form or fashion" when it was found. He told ABC11 that other evidence, such as surveillance footage from Walmart, had not yet been released as the investigation into Magee's death continues.
While Brame stopped short of stating that Magee's death was a suicide, he said that foul play was not suspected.
A preliminary autopsy report released on Friday was similarly inconclusive about suicide. However, the medical examiner did not find any obvious signs of defensive wounds or other scarring, only signs of hemorrhaging around the soft area of Magee's neck, Brame told ABC11.
A toxicology report remains pending. Blaze News left a message for Sheriff Brame seeking more information, but that message was not returned.
Candice Matthews, described by the TRiiBE as "a civil rights activist and state chair for the Texas Democratic Black Caucus" who claims to represent Magee's family, called on federal law enforcement to investigate the incident as a "hate crime."
"We demand the Department of Justice to come in and investigate this. We demand the FBI to come in and investigate this as a hate crime," she said.
"In my opinion, it's a hate crime because this young man had no indication of suicidal ideation," she said, according to WCNC.
Matthews also claimed that even though no official cause of death has been determined, the Vance County Sheriff's Office told Magee's mother and stepfather that he died by suicide.
"A lot of this stuff does not pass the smell test, and that's a problem," Matthews continued. "The entire family is completely mortified and they are hurt, they are. They have a lot of questions, and they just want to know what happened to their loved one."
Other locals likewise suspect racism may have played a role in Magee's death. "I mean, honestly, I think we have to acknowledge that, No. 1, we do live in the South, and there's a deep history of racism and racist acts. And so people are obviously concerned about that," Khalil Gay of Henderson told ABC11.
An X user account named britteney Black rose kapri, who apparently wrote a book entitled "Black Queer Hoe," similarly indicated that Magee had been "lynched." "A Black man was lynched in North Carolina this week. A Black man was lynched in North Carolina this week," kapri wrote on Wednesday.
As of Monday afternoon, kapri's post has over 99,000 likes and 3.7 million impressions.
Brame expressed his condolences to the family but insisted that everyone needs to exercise patience and wait for the facts to come out. "Stay out of the rumor mills," he advised.
KLLM Transport Services, the company which employed Magee at the time of his death, issued a statement about Magee's passing.
"We’d like to express our deepest condolences to the family. Javion was a good employee, and we’re all saddened by the loss. We’re cooperating with authorities in this investigation," said Booth Veazey, director of safety at KLLM Transport Services.
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Eight teens have been arrested in connection with the beating death of 17-year-old Jonathan Lewis near his Las Vegas high school on Nov. 1. Undersheriff Andrew Walsh of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department revealed in a press conference Tuesday that the suspects will be charged with murder.
Walsh further indicated that the investigation into Lewis' slaying is far from over, calling on parents and students who may have seen the video to help identify others in the mob who mercilessly kicked, stomped, and punched Lewis as he tried to get away.
Lt. Jason Johansson of the LVMPD's homicide section indicated that the fatal beating took place in an alley one block east of Rancho High School after classes let out. All involved in the incident were reportedly students from the school.
"As you know, the video that has been shared widely on social media ... is very graphic and in my opinion is very void of humanity," said Johansson. "What you see in the video though is approximately 10 subjects kicking, stomping, and punching our victim Jonathan as he's on the ground, not defending himself, until the point at where he becomes unconscious."
KVVU-TV previously reported that police found a student who was "battered and bleeding from the head."
According to police, the fight was initially over a pair of stolen wireless headphones and possibly also over a stolen vape pen, apparently taken earlier in the week from the victim's friend.
"After school let out, all parties then walked to that back alley where — as you see in the video — our victim removes his clothing, engages in a fight initially with one subject, and the minute the punch is thrown with that person, 10 subjects immediately swarm him," said Johansson.
After the mob overtook Lewis and left him with "non-survivable head trauma," Johansson said a concerned citizen found the victim's crumpled and unresponsive body lying in the alley, began attending to him, then carried him back to the school. He was subsequently taken to University Medical Center, where days later he perished.
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Lewis' cause of death was ruled a homicide. Police suggested there is presently no evidence to suggest that it was a hate crime.
The Clark County School District and the high school reportedly helped identify the eight suspects, who were taken into custody by law enforcement officials Tuesday morning. LVMPD also executed nine search warrants at various residences, obtaining clothing allegedly worn by the suspects during the attack.
The suspects range in age from 13 to 17. All were booked into Clark County Juvenile Hall on charges of murder.
"The case will now be turned over to the Clark County District Attorney's Office, who we've been in close coordination with," continued Johansson. "We'll go through the normal steps ... for them to be certified as an adult."
Las Vegas has seen other teens charged as adults in recent weeks for ghastly murders.
Jzamir Keys, 16, and Jesus Ayala, 18, were both charged as adults in connection to the fatal rundown of 64-year-old retired police chief Andreas Probst. Ayala and Keys appear to have filmed parts of their rampage, including when they allegedly drove a white sedan off the road, then targeted Probst, the former police chief of Bell, California, for slaughter, giggling while doing so.
"I want to say just as a parent and as a member of this community, the video that's out there and the videos that we have mentioned throughout this investigation and that you've seen reported in the media, they're extremely disturbing," said Undersheriff Walsh. "And this should be a reminder to all of us to have those difficult conversations with our children and remind them that their actions have consequences, their actions have lasting consequences, their actions have life-altering consequences."
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Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) is calling on several local officials to resign after they were caught on audio purportedly discussing plans to kill a journalist and reminiscing on the days when black people were lynched.
Over the weekend, the McCurtain Gazette-News disclosed a secret recording that caught multiple McCurtain County officials comparing a charred human body to barbecue, praising the time in history when black people were lynched, and apparently discussing hit men and killing Chris Willingham, a reporter for the Gazette-News.
The voices on the captured audio include McCurtain County Sheriff Kevin Clardy, Commissioner Mark Jennings, sheriff's investigator Alicia Manning, and jail administrator Larry Hendrix.
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A transcript of the conversation shows Clardy, Jennings, and Manning discussing Willingham. Jennings tells Manning that he knows "where two big deep holes are here if you ever need them," while Clardy assures Manning that he has an excavator. Jennings then says he knows "two or three hit men" who "would cut no f***ing mercy."
In another portion of audio, Jennings says he would run for sheriff if he could act like Alan Marston — who served as McCurtain County sheriff in the 1980s — because allegedly Marston "would take a damn black guy and whoop their ass and throw him in the cell. ... Take them down to Mud Creek and hang them up with a damn rope. But you can’t do that any more. They got more rights than we got."
The audio was recorded without the group's knowledge. It was captured on the same day that Willingham filed a defamation lawsuit against the sheriff's office, the Board of County Commissioners, and Manning, according to the Oklahoman.
Bruce Willingham, the father of Chris Willingham and the person responsible for the recording, told KWTV-DT that is he not sure how the officials could have been joking.
"I can see where they might try to [spin] that as being a joke, that part, but then Alicia comes back later on and starts talking about my daughter-in-law, and she starts getting worried about who would get the blame. I don't see how you spin that as a joke," Willingham said.
He called on Clardy, Jennings, Manning, and Hendrix to resign immediately.
"I am both appalled and disheartened to hear of the horrid comments made by officials in McCurtain County," he said in a statement. "There is simply no place for such hateful rhetoric in the state of Oklahoma, especially by those that serve to represent the community through their respective office. I will not stand idly by while this takes place."
Stitt also said he has referred the matter to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. The FBI is also reportedly investigating.
The officials involved in the scandal are not publicly responding.
But the McCurtain County Sheriffs Office released a statement on Monday indicating that the sheriff is going on the offensive.
The statement said the audio was "illegally obtained" because none of the involved parties had provided consent, which is required by Oklahoma law, and that county investigators are seeking to file felony charges against the person who captured the recording. The statement also claimed the audio had been "altered," but did not say how.
And while the statement claims the transcription does not exactly match the audio (and it does not explain how the sheriff's office would know that), the statement does directly deny the allegations.
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A Democrat running for Congress against Sen. Rand Paul puts a noose over his head and misleadingly suggests the Kentucky Republican opposed efforts to criminalize lynching in a campaign ad that's sure to be controversial.
Charles Booker, a former state lawmaker who is the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Kentucky, released a video Wednesday that attacks Paul for opposing an anti-lynching bill in 2020. The ad does not mention why Paul opposed the bill, or that he co-sponsored a new bipartisan version of that legislation this year that went on to become law.
The ad, titled, "The Pain of Our Past," contains a content warning for "strong imagery." It features Booker, who is black, narrating over a historic lynching photo and images of a noose hanging from a tree.
"The pain of our past persists to this day," Booker says in the video. "In Kentucky, like many states throughout the South, lynching was a tool of terror. It was used to kill hopes for freedom.
"It was used to kill my ancestors," he says, appearing onscreen with a noose fitted over his neck. "Now, in a historic victory for our commonwealth, I have become the first Black Kentuckian to receive the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate."
"My opponent?" he continues, as an image of Paul grimacing appears. "The very person who compared expanded health care to slavery. The person who said he would have opposed the Civil Rights Act. The person who single-handedly blocked an anti-lynching act from being federal law."
"The choice couldn't be clearer," Booker states as the camera shifts back to him. "Do we move forward together? Or do we let politicians like Rand Paul forever hold us back and drive us apart?
"In November, we will choose healing," he declares, lifting the noose off his neck. "We will choose Kentucky."
\u201cLynching is a tool of terror. It was used to kill hopes for freedom. In Kentucky, it was used to kill three of my uncles.\n\nIn this historic election, the choice is clear. Rand Paul may want to divide us, but hate won\u2019t win this time.\n\nIt\u2019s time to move forward, together.\u201d— Charles Booker (@Charles Booker) 1654082259
Booker posted the ad to his social media pages early Wednesday morning and it has since received over 300,000 views on Twitter.
His attack ad makes several references to controversial comments Paul has made during his two-term career in the U.S. Senate, but it does not offer context for what Paul said and misleads viewers.
Booker's charge that Paul would have opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, for example, is based on comments Paul made in a 2010 interview with the Louisville Courier Journal before he was elected to the Senate. The Journal had asked Paul, a libertarian Republican, whether he would have voted for the landmark civil rights bill, which outlawed segregation in public spaces and in private business establishments, as well as banning racial discrimination in employment.
Paul said that he opposes racial discrimination, but suggested that he disfavors government interfering with the freedom of private businesses.
"I abhor racism. I think it's a bad business decision to ever exclude anybody from your restaurant, but at the same time I do believe in private ownership," Paul said in 2010. "But I think there should be absolutely no discrimination in anything that gets any public funding, and that's most of what the Civil Rights Act was about, to my mind."
Democrats seized on Paul's comments and accused him of opposing civil rights legislation, but Paul has since repeatedly said he supports the Civil Rights Act and detests racism.
Booker's ad also accuses Paul of comparing "expanded health care to slavery," a charge that the the Louisville Courier Journal believes refers to statements he made on the Senate floor in 2011, in a speech opposing Obamacare.
"With regard to the idea whether or not you have a right to health care, you have to realize what that implies. I am a physician. You have a right to come to my house and conscript me. It means you believe in slavery," Paul said at the time.
"You are going to enslave not only me but the janitor at my hospital, the person who cleans my office, the assistants, the nurses," he added.
As for the claim that Paul opposed anti-lynching legislation, while it is true that in 2020 he held up a bill that would make lynching a federal hate crime, that's not the full story. Paul said at the time that lynching should be "universally condemned," but objected to language in the bill that included non-fatal injuries as lynching.
"If you're gonna call something an anti-lynching bill, but you're gonna have a new conspiracy charge for someone who has minor bruising, we don't think that's appropriate. And someone has to read these bills and make sure they do what they say they're going to do rather than it be just a big PR effort, and then everybody gets up in arms and wants to beat up anybody who wants to read the bill, and actually make the bill stronger," he told reporters.
He offered an amendment to the bill that would have added a "serious bodily injury standard," but the Senate did not adopt his proposal.
In 2022, Paul co-sponsored an updated version of that bill with Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) that addressed his concerns and passed with bipartisan support.
"It wasn't a popular stand to slow this bill down, but I wanted to do it because, you know, I thought it was the right thing to do," he told the Courier Journal in a March 1 interview. "And in the end, I think the compromise language will hopefully keep us from incarcerating somebody for some kind of crime that's not lynching.
"We just wanted to make sure that the punishment was proportional to the crime, and I guess it's just good news that it finally worked out," he said.
After a Portland high school underwent a name change in January due the "problematic" racial history of its original namesake — former President Woodrow Wilson — district officials now find themselves in quandary over finalizing the school's mascot due to concerns over possible lynching connotations.
The mascot in question? Evergreen trees.
The school's current mascot is the Trojans, but a committee consisting of students, staff, and community members arrived at the evergreens as the new mascot of what's now called Ida B. Wells-Barnett High School, the Portland Tribune reported.
"Evergreens are characterized by the life-giving force of their foliage, the strength of their massive trunk, and the depth of their roots — in an individual tree and as a forest of trees," Ellen Whatmore, a teacher at the high school and mascot committee member, read from a resolution, according to the Tribune. "They provide shelter and sustenance. They have histories that preclude us and will continue in perpetuity after we are no more."
But the outlet said that just prior to last Tuesday's vote by the Portland Public Schools Board of Education to approve the new mascot, Director Michelle DePass shared community concerns that evergreens could connote lynching — particularly since new namesake Wells-Barnett was a black activist and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who wrote about and spoke against lynching.
"I'm wondering if there was any concern with the imagery there, in using a tree ... as our mascot?" DePass asked the renaming and mascot committee, the Tribune noted. "I think everyone comes with blind spots, and I think that might've been a really big blind spot."
School Principal Filip Hristic told the board that "we take this seriously, and I definitely want to follow that commitment to protect, preserve, and promote the legacy of Ida B. Wells," adding that the committee hadn't spoken to the Wells-Barnett family specifically about the mascot, the outlet reported.
"The focus and opportunity was really to marry this sentiment that we heard from a lot of our stakeholders during our naming process, which was the desire for a local connection," Hristic said, according to the Tribune. "Ida B. Wells was somebody who stood strong and stood proud against what Woodrow Wilson and many others promoted."
Martin Osborne — who is black and is one of the committee members — said the group discussed the potential lynching connection between Wells-Barnett and evergreen trees "but we were looking at the symbolism more as a tree of life than a tree of death. You could certainly take it either way, depending upon your position," the outlet reported.
Osborne added that the evergreen choice "had nothing to do with the horrible history of lynching in the United States," the Tribune noted.
"Lynching trees typically are not evergreens," he also said, according to the outlet.
DePass suggested the mascot committee contact the Wells-Barnett family to make sure they don't see an issue with the evergreen mascot idea, the Tribune reported.
"Lynching is a really difficult topic to talk about, and as a sole black board member, I invite you, beg you, implore you to join me in disrupting the situations, practices, that are racist," DePass asked her colleagues, the outlet noted. "I can't do this by myself."
The board delayed the mascot vote until the next meeting, the Tribune said.
The outlet said a mascot survey was sent to students and staff in February, resulting in 420 nominations, after which the list of potential mascots was narrowed down to just five, with evergreens taking the lead.
The Tribune reported in a previous story that the high school's name change got rolling last June — amid the nationwide unrest following George Floyd's death — when students urged the board to rename what was Wilson High School. The outlet said the district released a statement saying school officials are "ready to listen to our communities and, in particular, our students to help guide us forward."
In addition, the Tribune noted that the district was also considering renaming Madison High School along with other sites named after what administrators called "problematic" historical figures.
“Police investigating after a Black woman was found hanging from a tree in Mississippi,” an X post from The Lead on CNN read, accompanied by a reporter hit that aired Wednesday from Omar Jimenez on the death of 29-year-old Tasia Fortune. Fortune was found hanging from a tree behind an abandoned house earlier this month. […]
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