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 ...

It’s a reminder that the past lines our paths and runs beneath our feet. EJI says about 120 counties named in the memorial ...

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.

News4’s Aimee Cho reports. At an emotional ceremony honoring victims of lynching in Montgomery County, Maryland, the descendant of one of the attackers apologized for her ancestor’s actions.