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Why the “Black Men Have Bigger Penises” Myth Won’t Die
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Why the “Black Men Have Bigger Penises” Myth Won’t Die

It’s a myth with a sinister past steeped in racism

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Artwork: “Really?” by the editor, Joe Duncan

*The following contains graphic violence.

On October 19, 1934, Claude Neal, a twenty-three-year-old Black farmhand, was arrested for the murder and rape of Lola Cannady, a nineteen-year-old white woman. Her body was found mutilated in a wooded hillside near her home in Marianna, Florida.

According to NAACP inves…

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