Posts Tagged ‘Lynching’
Americans Won’t Be Free Until We Face Our Racist History
“True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality,” a new HBO documentary coming out June 26, digs into Stevenson’s work with the Montgomery, Alabama-based Equal Justice Initiative, fighting racism in the criminal justice system for over 30 years, largely by defending poor, black people on death row.
Read MoreIda B Wells: the unsung heroine of the civil rights movement
Civil Right’s activist and lynching reporter, Ida B. Wells is finally getting the recognition she deserves.
Read MoreGOP Senator Who Made ‘Hanging’ Remark Attended ‘Segregated’ Academy
Cindy Hyde-Smith, the Republican Mississippi senator who made comments condoning “public hangings,” attended a “segregated” school when she was younger
Read MoreIn the Hate of Dixie
Cynthia Tucker describes the life style and the lynching of the south when racial tensions were at an all time high. Monroeville celebrated Harper Lee for her book “To Kill a Mockingbird”, however, the town of Monroeville failed to implement the ideals of Lee’s book. Tucker talks about the legal processes that affected the crimes in the south, and how we must learn from the past to secure a better future.
Read MoreA Song Without Words
On a mission from God, in 2017 Johnathon Kelso, a Florida native decided to document lynching sites in six Southern states and to talk with the victims’ descendants.
Read MoreDanye Jones’ Death Is Being Investigated as a Suicide. But His Mother, a Ferguson Activist, Says It’s a Lynching
By: Anne Branigin, Theroot A rally and news conference have been organized today by the family of Danye Jones, a 24-year-old man who was found dead, hanging from a tree on his family’s property, earlier this month. St. Louis County says they are investigating Jones’ death as a suicide. But his mother, Melissa McKinnies, a…
Read MorePublic hearing to determine if George Marshall Clark’s lynching site will be added as landmark
George Marshall Clark, a free Black man, is the only person to be hung in Milwaukee’s history . He deserves to be recognized with a historical marker at the lynching site.
Read MoreReopening the Emmett Till Case Is a Cynical Play
Whose justice is served by reopening the Emmett Till case?
Read MoreWitness a history of racial injustice at two new museums in Alabama and Mississippi
This article is about the anti-lynching and racial injustice museums opening across the country, most notably The National Memorial for Peace and Justice and The Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama, and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson, Mississippi.
Read MoreWhite Kid Wears KKK Costume To School As An Assignment… With Teacher’s Approval
Kid wears KKK costume to school to honor Klan leader.
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