A Summer Reading List for America’s 250th Anniversary. On July 4, 2026, America will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the ...

"It’s hard not to feel a chill down your back when you imagine all of the possibilities that could come out of this case." ...

But at the very spot where this lynching unfolded nearly 70 years ago – nothing ... And that, said Thompson, is the point. In his new book, "The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi" ...

The new memorial to lynching victims will open this spring, along with a museum that will trace grim parts of the African-American experience, from slavery to mass incarceration.

The Lynching in America report lists over 4,400 lynchings that were racially motivated and took place between the Reconstruction Era and World War II. The report pays special attention to the ...

Bearing 4,400 names, the first national memorial to black lynching victims opens April 26 in Montgomery, Alabama.

In his new book, author Wright Thompson examines the site of the notorious 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till, and a Mississippi Delta culture that, he says, has spent decades trying to erase ...

There were more than 15000 people present. He was said to have been “especially effective in showing the growth of the lynching evil and the dangers to America, if allowed to flourish unchecked.” ...

America's Black Holocaust Museum was founded in Milwaukee by James Cameron, who survived a lynching in 1930 in Marion, Indiana, when he was 16 years old. According to the museum’s executive ...

The U.S. Justice Department told relatives of Emmett Till on Monday, Dec. 6, 2021 that it is ending its investigation into the 1955 lynching of the Black teenager from Chicago who was abducted ...