How Do You Tell an Ugly Story About Our Country? - A new play examines the 1918 lynchings of Mary Turner and her husband
A new play examines the 1918 lynchings of Mary Turner and her husband---A hundred years ago in Valdosta, Georgia, at least a dozen African Americans were lynched within a few days of one another. One of them, Mary Turner, was 20 years old and eight months pregnant."I was surprised I'd never heard the story before," says LeKethia Dalcoe, an actor, author, and activist who used some of those stomach-churning murders as…