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The U.S. House is considering a bill that would put lynching sites in western Tennessee on track to become part of the National Park Service, part of a trend this year of Congress using the agency to advance discussions of the nation’s troubled and often violent racial history. A bill from U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, […]
The U.S. House is considering a bill that would put lynching sites in western Tennessee on track to become part of the National Park Service, part of a trend this year of Congress using the agency to advance discussions of the nation’s troubled and often violent racial history. A bill from U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, a […]
The U.S. House is considering a bill that would put lynching sites in western Tennessee on track to become part of the National Park Service, part of a trend this year of Congress using the agency to advance discussions of the nation’s troubled and often violent racial history. A bill from U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, Tennessee Democrat, […]
In a new campaign ad against incumbent Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., Democratic candidate Charles Booker is seen wearing a noose as he criticizes Paul for blocking a bill to make lynching a federal hate crime. “The pain of our . . .
As a historian and director of the Lynching in Texas project, which has documented more than 600 racial terror lynchings, I receive regular emails from journalists, scholars and activists who want to discuss the history of racial violence. My conversations with reporters and historians did not prepare me for one of the emails I received […]
Administrators at a Missouri school district that is the subject of a federal civil rights investigation failed to protect a Black teen from repeated racial taunts that culminated with him being threatened with a lynching, a lawsuit alleges. The suit filed this month in state court described what happened as “outrageous” and sought unspecified damages […]
Artist Branly Cadet’s Arise sculpture at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Ala., portrays community activists. Debbie Elliott/NPR hide caption toggle caption Debbie Elliott/NPR Artist Branly Cadet’s Arise sculpture at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Ala., portrays community activists. Debbie Elliott/NPR More than a million people have visited […]
United States President Joe Biden has signed into law the first federal legislation that makes lynching a federal hate crime in the country after civil rights groups pushed for such a measure for more than a century. The legislation is named after 14-year-old Emmett Till, who was brutally murdered in a racist attack . . […]
Now, a century later, Alfarena McGinty, the chief deputy coroner of Marion County, has ruled Tompkins’ death as a lynching, not a suicide, after reviewing his case. Dr. Paul Robinson, Marion County coroner in 1922, saw Tompkins’ body soon after police reported it. “There could be no question that the man had been murdered and […]
A Black teenager from Chicago, Till’s abduction, torture and murder decades ago galvanised the US civil rights movement. Relatives of Emmett Till, a Black teenager whose 1955 lynching propelled the United States civil rights movement, have joined supporters in asking authorities to reverse their decision to close an investigation into the killing. Deborah Watts, a […]