Overview
- During an MLK Day episode of The View, Grier said her mother shielded her from a body 'hanging from a tree' and described the memory as still triggering.
- Grier framed the account within her upbringing in a segregated military family and said the location she referenced now has a memorial.
- Records cited by the Equal Justice Initiative and America’s Black Holocaust Museum list Ohio’s last recorded lynching in 1911 and none in Columbus, creating a timeline conflict with her claim.
- Conservative outlets and numerous social media users challenged the account and highlighted that The View co-hosts did not question it on air.
- Some reports noted the story does not appear in Grier’s 2010 memoir and raised biographical questions about references to Columbus in her early life.