A Vindication
Robert Reich's Substack post "A Vindication" celebrates Scott Colom's defeat of Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, making him the first Black senator elected from Mississippi since 1881. Reich, who says Mickey Schwerner was his childhood protector, writes that the victory vindicates Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman — murdered by the Ku Klux Klan during Freedom Summer in 1964 — and calls it a great moment for Mississippi and a beautiful one for America.
