Rasheem Carter was lynched in Mississippi. The DOJ can’t look away.

The horrific imagery is long seared into the minds of Black Americans and imprinted in the history of the American South: A Black man hunted down, beaten bloody, run over, hung from a pecan tree, dragged behind a pickup truck, or shot in broad daylight as he jogs through his own neighborhood. The brutal lynching and murder of Black Americans is almost as American as apple pie. 

You’d think that in the year 2023, these horrific accounts would be well in our past — unfortunate reminders of what used to...