lynching

Black Surfer Says Racists In Florida Nailed His Board To A Tree

Andrew Sherlock Mills said white surfers told him, 'They can't stand to see a Black man in their waters.'
08/31/2023

More Remains Of Rasheem Carter Found In Suspected Lynching, Family Attorney Says

‘From the beginning of this case, the family has been misled,’ Ben Crump said.
04/27/2023

Biden Signs Historic Anti-Lynching Law That Criminalizes This White Supremacist Tool Of ‘Terror’

It took federal lawmakers more than a century to pass the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act.
03/30/2022

Family of Emmett Till Urges Department of Justice to Reopen the Investigation of 1955 Lynching

The 1955 killing of the 14-year-old Chicago boy has gone nearly 70 years without anyone being convicted, but his family still wants to see someone held accountable.
03/14/2022
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After A Century, The U.S. Senate Unanimously Passes Emmett Till Antilynching Act Of 2022

An Emmett Till opera is also headed to New York City.
03/09/2022
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Emmett Till Will Posthumously Receive Congressional Gold Medal

Congress has not made lynching a federal hate crime.
01/14/2022

This Day in Black History: July 16, 1862

Journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett was born.
07/16/2020
Memorial for peace and justice is officially open on BET NEws.
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The National Memorial For Peace And Justice Is Officially Open

Nation's largest database of lynching.
04/26/2018

Parents Want White Principal Who Quoted “Take All Of The Rope In Texas, Hang Them High In The Street" Lyrics In Facebook Post Fired

Kimberly Stidham is under investigation.
08/28/2017

White Students Share Photoshopped Image of Black Classmate Being Lynched

Aina Adewunmi's mother is demanding the bullies be expelled.
06/12/2017

White Teens in Texas Under Fire for Creating Racist Rap

Song promotes lynching young Black boys.
04/16/2015