For many African Americans growing up in the South in the 19th and 20th centuries, the threat of lynching was commonplace. The popular image of an angry white mob stringing a black man up to a ...

It was bad that he did not go into more detail — especially since what happened in 1891 in Louisiana is considered one of the largest mass lynchings in American history, and the victims were ...

Nearly 4,000 black men were lynched in the South prior to the civil rights movement, hundreds more than was previously thought, according to a new report released today by the Equal Justice ...

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, ...

They weren’t the only White people who knew mob violence and lynchings were amoral and unjust ... “So often, when it comes to African American history,” she said, “people have a tendency ...

US President Joe Biden has signed legislation that designates lynching as a federal hate crime. The law follows more than 100 years and 200 failed attempts by US lawmakers to pass anti-lynching ...

which aims to document and install narrative historical markers at the sites of racially-motivated lynchings in America. The Orlando-based Alliance for Truth and Justice also played a role in ...

Wolf and his longtime collaborator Tom Thayer are exec producing Murder In America: The Lynching of Emmett Till, a two-hour feature documentary, alongside James Moll, the Oscar winner behind ...

Benjamin Hance and Charles Whitley are tied together through dark periods of Southern Maryland’s past, and healing for the ...