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I spent the last few days compiling data of hangings of Black people since 2018, and a lot of them had a common theme. Let's get into it.

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Take Willie Andrew Jones Jr., 21-year-old Black man found hanging from a pecan tree in his white ex-girlfriend's yard in Scott County, Mississippi, back in February 2018 after they had an argument. Now, the sheriff ruled a suicide, but his family believes that he was lynched, and they proved their fight wasn't just empty talk by winning a wrongful death lawsuit to the tune of $11.3 million against the white girlfriend's stepfather.

Then there's a Ferguson hanging: in October 2018, Danye Jones, 24, was found hanging by a bedsheet from a tree directly behind his own family home in St. Louis County. His mother, a prominent Ferguson activist, insists her son was lynched in retaliation for her activism, and she pointed to a detail that authorities never addressed: Danye didn't know how to tie the advanced knots found at the scene. Yet the official ruling came down as a suicide.

These two are the tip of the iceberg: Lennon Lacy, Javion Magee, Robert Fuller, Dominique Alexander, Dennorris Richardson—the list goes on and on. And all of them share the same themes: public locations, missing personal items, families swearing their loved ones had no suicidal intent, police refusing to investigate deeper, and rulings that land before questions can be asked.

That's why I'm building an interactive, dynamic map to put every single name from this data on a live timeline and map so you can see the pattern for yourselves. This map will grow as new cases come out and as old ones are reexamined, because behind most of these dots are families still waiting for the truth.

This is Monique with The Black Belt Daily, signing off.

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