A final report produced by a commission established to investigate the history of lynchings in Maryland urges the state and ...
BALTIMORE -- The Reginald F Lewis Museum is inching closer to creating a new permanent exhibit to recognize the history of lynching in Maryland and the victims. Senator Chris Van Hollen made an ...
Slavery reparations may be debatable but benefits for families who lost a loved one to racial terror are clearly deserved.
Think of lynching, and images of mobs and nooses, Old West-style vigilantes and displays of white supremacy may come to mind. In his new book, "American Atrocity: The Types of Violence in Lynching" ...
In a viral TikTok video which racked up over five million “likes,” a white nurse claimed that one of her dying COVID-19 patients was haunted by a Black teenager who had been beaten, castrated, and ...
Missouri’s use of the death penalty — a “consistent outlier” as use of capital punishment wanes across the country — has a direct tie to the state’s history of lynching, a new report says. The report, ...
One of my first thoughts when I arrived in Montgomery, Alabama, and encountered the spring heat was this: How did enslaved men, women and children endure day after day? It was an odd thought, given ...
Many have called the murder of George Floyd a public lynching. I think this is a paradigm worthy of exploration. First, we would need to look at the history of lynching. Once we have that knowledge, ...
More than 100 years ago, a man was hanged to death from a tree in Marietta after being abducted from a Georgia prison. Leo Frank was lynched on Aug. 17, 1915 after then-Gov. John Slaton commuted his ...
Think of lynching, and images of mobs and nooses, Old West-style vigilantes and displays of white supremacy may come to mind. In his new book, "American Atrocity: The Types of Violence in Lynching" ...
OPINION: Performative solidarity in the digital space is yet another example of how we can be seduced into Black trauma porn while emotionally investing in the illusion of white redemption In a viral ...