Lynchings

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Dennoriss Richardson hanging, Alabama, theGrio.com
November 4, 2024
Sheriff's deputies found Dennoriss Richardson, 39, in September in a rural part of Colbert County, miles away from his home…
Jordan Neely, lynching, theGrio.com
May 26, 2023
We live in a time when racial vigilantism is offered once again to eliminate Black lives. Black life has always…
April 27, 2023
The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of making improper advances before he was lynched in Mississippi in…
Robert E. Lee statue thegrio.com
October 17, 2021
"We can’t pinpoint exactly the cause and effect. But the association is clearly there,” said a research team member at…
Vauhxx Rush Booker thegrio.com
August 5, 2021
A Black man who was almost lynched by a mob of white males in Indiana is now being charged for…
lynching thegrio.com
June 14, 2019
Maryland offocials established a truth commission to investigate lynchings of 40 African Americans that occurred between 1854 and 1933 but…
Virginia newspaper klan flyer
February 23, 2019
White newspaper editor, Goodloe Sutton who supports the Ku Klux Klan is handing over control of his publication to a…
Cindy Hyde-Smith thegrio.com
November 14, 2018
U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) made a racist joke about lynching that clearly wasn’t funny but apparently Google donated to her anyway.
Strange Fruit quilt. (Detroit Free Press) thegrio.com
February 12, 2018
April Shipp’s “Strange Fruit” is a 10-by-10 foot piece of fabric that beautifully and richly commemorates the lives of those