TV-14 | YouTube | 25 min
Released in January of 2021
SUMMARY: A powerful personal narrative from Winfred Rembert who survived a lynching as a teenager. A must watch.
KEY QUOTES: “That lynching is on my back. And it is dragging me down even today even though its been some 40 some years ago. And even today it is dragging me down. (I) can’t rest. I can’t rest. I lay in my bed and I can’t rest. I am running for my life every night. Somebody’s after me. And I don’t know what to do.”
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