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On today's Roundtable: debt relief for Africa, a failing FBI, an apology for anti-lynching laws, and a teen gets a scholarship from death row. Joining us to discuss this, from our Chicago bureau, Dawn ...

For her new documentary, Lynching Postcards: Token Of A Great Day, filmmaker Christine Turner examined hundreds of black-and-white photographs that show how organized these events were and included ...

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 ...

As president of the Manasota branch of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, I am responding to a recent letter ("Black History Month provides education," Oct. 31) ...

This city of 33,000 on Maryland’s Eastern Shore moved one step closer to reckoning with its past as its elected officials last week approved an apology for the long-ago lynchings of three Black men.

This was no “ordinary” lynching, if ever such a word could be used to describe such an event. Edward Coy, an African American man 32 years of age, had been accused of rape. That was an ordinary ...

Koritha Mitchell, an associate professor of English at Ohio State University, spoke about the evolution of the portrayal of lynching in American media in her lecture called "Living With Lynching," on ...

What prompted the idea for the course? One of my students was reviewing a spreadsheet that listed total lynchings by state. She exhaled, and then, with a bit of weariness, said, “Mississippi, goddamn.

MULBERRY – Decades ago, down by the old railroad station and the current phosphate museum, there was a large Mulberry tree that leant its name to the town - a tree locals knew was the site of numerous ...