For many African Americans growing up in the South in the 19th and 20th centuries, the threat of lynching was commonplace. The popular image of an angry white mob stringing a black man up to a ...

EJI has documented 3,959 lynchings of black people in twelve Southern states between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and 1950, which is at least 700 more lynchings in these states than ...

A meeting of a state-mandated commission looking at historic harms caused to Black Coloradans was meant to announce research ...

A Virginia town is working to amend injustices in America's dark past. Once commonplace in Virginia, lynchings are a reminder of the state's stained past and racist history. FOX 5's Tisha Lewis ...

lynchings have happened throughout history, not just simply in this country, but in all countries because there's something in people that wants to turn on the unpopular kid and beat him to death.

For many African Americans growing up in the South in the 19th and 20th centuries, the threat of lynching was commonplace. The popular image of an angry white mob stringing a black man up to a ...