The practice of lynching African-Americans during the early history of the United States has had lasting effects on society today, author Philip Dray said yesterday in the third of the ...
Extralegal killings as a response to crimes or as an expression of hatred regularly occurred during the Jim Crow era of the late 1800s to mid-1900s. Only one documented lynching occurred in Cape ...
The Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconiciliation Commission (MLTRC) held its final public hearing on April 4 and 5 at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of African American History and Culture. The gathering ...
On Dec. 7, a significant historical marker was unveiled in Huntsville, Alabama, commemorating the tragic lynching of Robert Mosley, a 16-year-old Black boy who was murdered in 1890. This marker stands ...
INDIANAPOLIS — On Sunday, a historical marker was unveiled in Indianapolis for a man who was lynched over a century ago. State and local leaders joined members of the Indiana Remembrance Coalition and ...
Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. is the last living witness to one of America’s most notorious lynchings. He was with his cousin, Emmett Till, in 1955 when the 14-year-old was accused of whistling at a white ...
Mosley was killed after a white woman accused him of burying her alive, sparking a mob of over 500 white citizens. A historical marker in honor of Robert Mosley, an 1890 victim of a lynching in ...
A Black freshman’s apparent suicide on campus is one of at least nine Black men who have been found hanging from trees since ...
The gun used in the lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till is now on display for the public to see, 70 years after the killing. The Mississippi Department of Archives and History unveiled the .45-caliber ...
There needs to be zero tolerance to all acts of hate at school — especially one as violent and visceral as this.
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