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A Black 18-year-old college student was lynched on a playground 95 years ago. His nephew just accepted his posthumous degree

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By Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — As Imam Plemon El-Amin stood on stage at Morehouse College in front of hundreds of people, donning graduation regalia his uncle Dennis Hubert never got to wear, all he could think was that Hubert would never be forgotten – even 95 years after he was killed. Hubert, an 18-year-old African American divinity student at Morehouse College, was lynched in June 1930 by a mob of seven White men on the playground of a segrega…

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A Black 18-year-old college student was lynched on a playground 95 years ago. His nephew just accepted his posthumous degree

As Imam Plemon El-Amin stood on stage at Morehouse College in front of hundreds of people, donning graduation regalia his uncle Dennis Hubert never got to wear, all he could think was that Hubert would never be forgotten – even 95 years after he was killed.

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