The names of at least three of the Newberry Six — a group of African Americans lynched more than a century ago — were painted ...

By illuminating the submerged histories of black vigilantism and consolidating narratives of lynching in African American literature that framed black victims of white lynch mob violence as heroic, ...

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For us, America has only been a democracy for sixty years. As I often remind myself, there are white people alive right now ...

Historic Brattonsville in South Carolina’s Olde English District is a little-known historic village with a big story. Its ...

American carnage in songs for each of the five stops on an inter-city Greyhound. Two days after Donald Trump declared victory ...

One hundred and sixty years after the United States abolished slavery, racial differences continue to spark pervasive ...

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They carried out lynching. This was the name given to violent ... certain groups they considered to be threatening ‘the American way of life’. Unemployment was growing and the KKK blamed ...

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