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On a cold Chicago day in January 1900, journalist and activist Ida B. Wells delivered a speech titled “Lynch Law in America.” First published in The Arena — a liberal, Boston-based publication — Wells’ speech decried the American tradition of grotesque violence against the Black body through lynching. On Tuesday, we were reminded of the significance, and the urgency of her words. That night, actor Jussie Smollett a proud gay, Black man was attacked by two white supremacists