Co-owner of the “Memphis Free Speech and Headlight” newspaper, Wells argued that whites used lynching, rampant during the Jim ...

The National Park Service will hold a public meeting in Oxford next week as part of a federally mandated study examining ...

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 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 ...

Lynching Photography in America" arrived in the mail, it produced a jolt that has nothing to do with surprise. The book feels ...

The “Crimson Record” study highlights patterns in suspected lynching cases often ruled suicides in the South over the last 25 ...

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 ...

On Saturday, Move the Mindset, a civil rights organization dedicated to promoting racial and social justice, held a ceremony for the installation of a historical marker honoring the lives of two Black ...

One group is educating people in the Upstate on the four men whose lives were cut short by racial violence.

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