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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BALTIMORE — A final report produced by a commission established to investigate the history of lynchings in Maryland urges the ...

The Carencro community unveiled a historical marker honoring Louis Senegal and Antoine Domingue, two Black men lynched in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The marker, at 409 Veterans Dr. in ...

A memorial to victims of lynching in the U.S. opens in Alabama on April 26, 2018. The National Memorial for Peace and Justice is a six-acre site that overlooks Montgomery, the state capital. It uses ...

"Black lives ... forever matter," said Valeri Scott. "It's not just George Floyd or Breonna Taylor, but James Mitchell." ...

SARASOTA, Fla. — Black History Month is an opportunity to learn from the past to build a better future. This year, for Sarasota and Manatee counties, that means taking steps to recognize the ...

A community remembrance project aims to learn and heal from Alexandria’s past. Resolved: Never Again sheds light on a dark chapter in Alexandria's history, revisiting the lynchings of two young ...

(WFXR)- A new project in Virginia will create and place fifteen historical highway markers at or near where lynchings took place. According to James Madison University’s “Racial Terror: Lynching in ...

GIVES US A GLIMPSE AT THE EXHIBIT. 38 JARS SIT INSIDE THE NEW LYNCHING IN MARYLAND EXHIBIT AT THE REGINALD F LEWIS MUSEUM, REPRESENTING EACH OF MARYLAND’S 38 DOCUMENTED LYNCHING VICTIMS. AND I WANT ...

A historical marker recognizing a lynching victim is set to be erected in Monroe County. On Sept. 18, the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission announced that it approved 45 new historical ...

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 ...

A final report produced by a commission established to investigate the history of lynchings in Maryland urges the state and several local jurisdictions to acknowledge ...