The Murder of Ahmaud Arbery: A Modern Day Lynching

Elwood Watson, Ph.D.
6 min readMay 8, 2020

By now, most Americans have either witnessed or heard about the horrifically chilling video showing the murder of Black man Ahmaud Arbery, the 25-year-old Georgia man who was fatally shot in cold blood while going on an afternoon jog. He was shot down like an animal. Today, May 8th, would have been his 26th birthday.

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Elwood Watson, Ph.D.

Historian, Syndicated Columnist, Public Speaker, Social-Cultural Critic. Professor of Black Studies and Gender Studies, at East Tennessee State University.