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The Equal Justice Initiative is collecting soil from lynchings sites across the country for a memorial in Montgomery, Alabama. Johnson helped collect soil from a Duluth site where three African-American men were lynched in 1920.


MPR host Tom Weber and co-host Doualy Xaykaothao spoke to Johnson and Sia Sanneh, an attorney at Equal Justice Initiative. 

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MPR News correspondent Doualy Xaykaothao joined Tom Weber as the co-host of the 11 a.m. program. Their conversation addressed historical injustices.

MPR News correspondent Doualy Xaykaothao joined Tom Weber as the co-host of the 11 am program.  They started with a conversation about how to address historical injustices with two women working on a national memorial that uses soil from lynching sites.

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