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/watchUprootedOver a hundred years after Thomas Miles Sr. was lynched in Shreveport, Louisiana, his family travels to the South for the first time, seeking answers about a man – and a place – they have never fully known.UprootedUprootedOver a hundred years after Thomas Miles Sr. was lynched in Shreveport, Louisiana, his family travels to the South for the first time, seeking answers about a man – and a place – they have never fully known.WATCH