“In order to heal the deep wounds of our present, we must face the truth of our past.” It continues: After slavery was formally abolished, lynching emerged as a vicious tool of racial control to ...

This summer, research by the Equal Justice Initiative revealed that there were 3,959 lynchings of black Americans between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and 1950. That's 700 more than previously ...

The exhibit “Unmasked: Anti-Lynching Art and Public Community Remembrance in Indiana” is coming next week to the Jefferson County History and Art Center at 615 West First Street. “Madison is an art ...

There were at least 4,743 lynchings in the U.S. from 1882 to 1968, NAACP said. A pair of presidential hopefuls joined forces on Thursday as a part of a rejuvenated effort to make lynching a federal ...

Loudoun County’s Board of Supervisors has voted to authorize a feasibility study to install a historical marker recognizing the third of three documented lynchings of Black men in the Virginia county.

"Justice failed Austin Callaway," said the mayor of LaGrange, Georgia. — -- On Sept. 8, 1940, a group of white men wearing hoods dragged a black teen named Austin Callaway out of a jail in ...