lynching
Legacy of racial terror lives on in the U.S. South
August 27, 2026Suspicious circumstances around the deaths of several young African Americans—and lackluster investigations—have revived memories of lynchings in the old Confederacy.
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Lynchings of yesterday and today the focus of Dallas meeting
August 21, 2025Activists in north Texas are getting an education about the history of lynchings in the United States, thanks to local historian Olinka Green, in conjunction with Dallas Nomad magazine.
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Family demands answers in Black man’s mysterious death in North Carolina
September 24, 2024Javion Magee’s death brings attention to North Carolina’s red record of anti-Black terror through lynchings.
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‘100 Years of Lynchings’: 1962 book remains a ‘should-read’ for all
September 9, 2024The genocide in Gaza had this reviewer looking back to the mass murder of innocents in U.S. history.
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After a century or more of defeats, Congress finally declares lynching a hate crime
March 3, 2020At least 4,742 people, 99% of them African Americans, were lynched between 1892 and the mid-1950s.
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