Willie Lynch, that persistent and vexatious fiction, is back in the news, this time under the journalistic auspices of MSNBC, whose African-American news site, the Grio, yesterday published an ...

There are a lot of controversial moments, works, and speeches in African-American history; not just significant and progressive works but controversial ones that introduced a radical idea to the ...

While we now know that the document was a hoax, there are many who still believe the Willie Lynch Letter is historically accurate. For those people, theGrio Daily presents the (fake) speech that ...

When Louis Farrakhan addressed the multitudes at the Million Man March in October 1995, he quoted key passages from “Willie” Lynch’s narrative to illustrate the lingering vestiges of slavery.

Georgia, ladies and gentleman. For historical reference, the Willie Lynch letter (now thought to be a hoax) was purported to be the work of a plantation owner who offered a “method for controlli ...

OPINION: We celebrate white Juneteenth with a long-overdue response to the (fake) Willie Lynch Letter—perhaps the first viral digital hoax—explaining the invention of whiteness. Editor’s ...