Vandals protesting Winthrop University’s Tillman Hall hung black stuffed stockings from a tree outside the building on Sunday afternoon, the Rock Hill Herald reported. Tillman Hall is named after former SC Governor Benjamin Tillman, a known white supremacist who advocated lynching Blacks who tried to vote. Rock Hill Police Officers found “numerous” black stockings hanging […]
The University of Pennsylvania is on edge over a cyber threat targeting Black freshmen. Investigators identify a University of Oklahoma suspect in an ongoing probe.
Like many cities outside of the Deep South, Duluth, Minnesota was a haven for Blacks looking for better opportunities. However, three Black men who were making their way in Duluth were lynched in 1920 after they were falsely accused of sexually assaulting a white woman and robbing her boyfriend. Issac McGhie, Elmer Jackson, and […]
A group of U.N. experts issued a report urging the U.S. to give some form of reparations to African-Americans. The legacy of unresolved racial inequality continues to harm the nation's Black community.
Yesterday, a jury found Richards (aka Jasmine Abdullah) guilty of attempting to unlawfully remove a suspect from police custody during that protest. The technical term for the charge she was convicted of is "lynching."
The restaurant is in trouble after customers spotted a photograph of a lynching on their table.
A man in Virginia already convicted of hanging a noose in his front yard dove back into his racist bag of tricks and was arrested again. Jack Eugene Turner of Rocky Mount placed a sign in his yard featuring a racial epithet that made a mockery of the Black Lives Matter movement. Turner, 52, was set to […]
The Department of Justice said there is no evidence that Otis Byrd, 54, who was found hanging from a tree in rural Mississippi in March,…
State and federal law enforcement agents are investigating the hanging death of a 43-year-old Black man whose body was found Monday morning outside a home…
The family of Otis Byrd, the man who was found hanging from a tree in Mississippi last month, has hired a well-renowned medical examiner to…
Another institution is under investigation after a noose was found hanging from a tree just a few miles from Ferguson, Mo. The noose was found at North Tech High…
UPDATED: Thursday, April 2 — 6:00 PM EST According to WNCN, Duke University officials have identified the student responsible for hanging a noose from a tree on…
