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Mississippi Has Had 8 Suspected Lynchings Since 2000

A private investigation by lawyer and civil rights activist Jill Collen Jefferson revealed that at least eight Black people have…
by Keenan "HIGz" Higgins
08.24.21
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How Can We Protect Black Youth?

Black children are not killed because police fail to recognize them as children. They are killed because they are Black. 
by Stacey Patton and Toby Rollo
08.25.21
Amani Kildea, NJ man found hanging

'Lynching' Suspected In New Jersey Man's Hanging

The hanging death of a Black man in New Jersey named Amani Kildea came amid a string of other suspected…
by NewsOne Staff
09.02.21
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Series Of Suspected Lynchings Come As Nation Protests…

People continue to demand further investigations.
by Royce Dunmore
09.07.21
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Twitter Reacts To Trump's Ignorant 'Lynching' Tweet

Folks bring up receipts from Trump's racist past after he compares the impeachment inquiry against him to "a lynching."
by NewsOne Staff
03.30.20
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Juneteenth 'Lynchings' Note Sparks Outrage In Virginia

There are calls for Thomas Dunn to resign.
by NewsOne Staff
03.29.20
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Racist Lynching Commission Starts In Maryland

Maryland has become the first state in the country to create a statewide commission on racial terror lynchings.
by Megan Sims
03.28.20
Funeral Held For Botham Shem Jean, Who Was Killed By Dallas Police Officer Amber Guyger When She Entered Wrong Apartment

The Botham Jean Narrative

What we are not going to allow is for this country to continue to put Botham Jean on trial for…
by David Dennis, Jr.
10.13.19
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WATCH: The History Of Lynching Video

“Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror” unflinchingly explores America’s brutal history of lynching and provides a powerful…
by Angela Bronner Helm
10.11.16
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Alabama Memorial To Honor Lynching Victims

A museum will also go alongside the memorial to trace the country's history from slavery to present day. The structure…
by NewsOne Staff
08.17.16
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Congress Petitioned To Make Lynching A Federal Crime…

The long, ugly history, regarding the lynching of Blacks in America was not formally acknowledged until 2005. Amazingly, there had…
by D.L. Chandler
06.19.19
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Brutal Lynching At Moore’s Ford Bridge Took Place…

The lynching of two married African-American couples, known in some circles as the “Lynching At Moore’s Ford Bridge,” took place…
by D.L. Chandler
06.19.19
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The Little-Known Lynching Story Of Postmaster Frazier Baker

Although the term “lynching” conjures for most the stirring image of a person being hanged, the act itself has a…
by D.L. Chandler
06.19.19
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Waco Horror: Jesse Washington Lynching Happened 96 Years…

Of the atrocities levied upon African Americans at the hands of White racist America, the public burning and lynching of…
by D.L. Chandler
06.19.19
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