joining me now, civil rights attorney jill colin jefferson.from your background just how close you are to this story. your law firm takes its name from the late julian bond, the longtime head of the naacp and an institution unto himself. you began researching the deaths of black people found hanging, eventually focusing on your own state, which leads the nation in these kinds of instances, as it did during jim crow. you found that at least eight black males had been allegedly lynched in mississippi since 2001. like jim crow, you found systemic failure of law enforcement to call these deaths what you and the victims' families believed them to be. can you elaborate on these findings, counselor? >> yes. yes, i can. first, thank you for having me, reverend al. what i have found in these cases is that, first, there's a pattern to these investigations. you have a situation where, first of all, the crime scene is not preserved. then you have a situation where evidence just basically is misanalyzed. and then the case is ruled a suicide and it's not ev