There were at least 4,743 lynchings in the U.S. from 1882 to 1968, NAACP said. A pair of presidential hopefuls joined forces on Thursday as a part of a rejuvenated effort to make lynching a federal ...

Every time a lynching occurred in the U.S. between 1920 and 1936, the NAACP flew this flag from their headquarters on Fifth Avenue in New York. Library of Congress. Can one flag really change public ...

Tina Harris remembers the day her grandmother, Mary Armwood, told her about Maryland's last documented lynching victim: George Armwood. "My grandmother is Mary Armwood, and George Armwood was her ...

More than 150 years ago, a great injustice against Chinese-born residents of Los Angeles made headlines, in part because of the sheer brutality it demonstrated. But today, many Angelenos are unaware ...

A panel of Black journalists, media scholars and leaders discussed the legacy of how news outlets covered lynching during the Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s public hearing at ...

Carroll County’s history of racial violence, including the 1885 lynching of an African American man named Townsend Cook, was the subject of a weekend hearing in Westminster. The event Saturday was ...

At an emotional ceremony honoring victims of lynching in Montgomery County, Maryland, the descendant of one of the attackers apologized for her ancestor’s actions. On Friday, the county officially ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – More than 100 years ago this month, a Black man was killed by an angry white mob, who chased him through the streets of Cleveland after he was accused of taking some cherries from a ...