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 ...

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 ...

A new project in Virginia will create and place fifteen historical highway markers at or near where lynchings took place.

A memorial to victims of lynching in the U.S. opens in Alabama on April 26, 2018. The National Memorial for Peace and Justice is a six-acre site that overlooks Montgomery, the state capital. It uses ...

The Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconiciliation Commission (MLTRC) held its final public hearing on April 4 and 5 at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of African American History and Culture. The gathering ...

On Saturday, Move the Mindset, a civil rights organization dedicated to promoting racial and social justice, held a ceremony for the installation of a historical marker honoring the lives of two Black ...

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 ...

The Virginia Department of Historic Resources (DHR) announced on Wednesday that it will place roughly 15 historical highway markers near sites of lynchings that occurred throughout the Commonwealth.

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 ...

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 ...

The 17-member group that looked into lynching — the first state-sponsored commission of its kind in the United States — confirmed and documented 38 of the murders of Black people by white mobs in ...