Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When artist Hannah Hasan drives past Bank of America Stadium, she remembers. Not a football game or a concert but Joseph McNeely, ...
In the late 19th century, lynchings were the latest form of racial terrorism against Black Americans after white plantation owners had used various forms of violence against the enslaved. According to ...
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 ...
Three Kuumba drummers ushered more than 300 people on Saturday from the Unitarian Universalist Church of Sarasota with their West-African instruments to a new marker that memorializes six known ...
For the past five years, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Remembrance Project has worked to document lynchings that occurred in the county. It’s part of a national and statewide movement to identify and ...
A version of this story ran in the March / April 2024 issue. They burned his coat before they killed him. This was in Fort Worth, in 1921, during a strike at a packinghouse: A Black worker, excluded ...
Mexico has witnessed two high-profile public lynchings within the space of two weeks. In late March, a woman suspected of murdering an eight-year-old girl in Taxco, Guerrero, was lynched by an angry ...
A memorial marker for Levi Harrington, an innocent 23-year-old Black man lynched by a white mob in 1882, was cut off its pole in a Kansas City park and thrown off a cliff in 2020. Robert A. Cronkleton ...