The Baltimore Sun should investigate its coverage of lynchings, Black communities

As public defenders, we hear countless stories from our Black clients about interactions with police. We have watched, listened, and read in horror as they are still targeted and terrorized based on their race. This racial terror has deep roots in our country’s history of oppression. A presentation by Will Schwarz of the Maryland Lynching Memorial Project on the lynching of Howard Cooper moved us to take a deeper look into the responsibility of the state’s paper of record at the time.\