Last week, a lynching memorial in Montgomery, Alabama was opened in remembrance of the tragic and violent past that murdered innocent African-American victims. Lynchings were one of America’s most ...

Black lawmakers have to work with a system that has no interest in honoring our real past, one that forces terrible choices ...

Senate passes bill amid reinvigorated effort to make lynching a federal hate crime There were at least 4,743 lynchings in the U.S. from 1882 to 1968, NAACP said.

A memorial plaque to remember the 1905 lynching of nine men will be unveiled at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Oconee County Courthouse.