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The practice of lynching African-Americans during the early history of the United States has had lasting effects on society today, author Philip Dray said yesterday in the third of the ...

A final report produced by a commission established to investigate the history of lynchings in Maryland urges the state and several local jurisdictions to acknowledge ...

A Maryland commission recently concluded that state leaders and institutions were complicit in 38 lynchings and the widespread racial terror that followed the Civil ...

The Carencro community unveiled a historical marker honoring Louis Senegal and Antoine Domingue, two Black men lynched in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The marker, at 409 Veterans Dr. in ...

GIVES US A GLIMPSE AT THE EXHIBIT. 38 JARS SIT INSIDE THE NEW LYNCHING IN MARYLAND EXHIBIT AT THE REGINALD F LEWIS MUSEUM, REPRESENTING EACH OF MARYLAND’S 38 DOCUMENTED LYNCHING VICTIMS. AND I WANT ...

A community remembrance project aims to learn and heal from Alexandria’s past. Resolved: Never Again sheds light on a dark chapter in Alexandria's history, revisiting the lynchings of two young ...

A new memorial will mark the lynching of 21-year-old John Buckner in St. Louis County. An 1897 news report called it “swift punishment by a county mob.” After John Buckner was lynched in 1894, a mob ...

Extralegal killings as a response to crimes or as an expression of hatred regularly occurred during the Jim Crow era of the late 1800s to mid-1900s. Only one documented lynching occurred in Cape ...

It’s been a year and a half since The State re-examined a 135-year-old crime that left a Lexington County teenager dead. But that look at the 1890 lynching of Willie Leaphart — broken down in a series ...

WASHINGTON -- The three African-American members of the U.S. Senate have introduced legislation that would make lynching a federal crime. Sponsored by Sens. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., Cory Booker, D-NJ, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BALTIMORE — A final report produced by a commission established to investigate the history of lynchings in Maryland urges the ...