“In order to heal the deep wounds of our present, we must face the truth of our past.” It continues: After slavery was formally abolished, lynching emerged as a vicious tool of racial control to ...

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- A memorial that honors thousands of victims of lynching and explores the lasting impact the practice had on American culture is now open in Alabama. The National Memorial for Peace ...

On Aug. 28, 1955, near Money, Miss., Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Chicago teenager, was viciously maimed, tortured, shot, and drowned over an alleged slight made to a white woman at a grocery store. Why ...

Ida B. Wells said it best, "Our country's national crime is lynching." Last week, we were reminded of this when the Equal Justice Initiative released its report ...

"We want our future generations to know that whatever happened, we have overcome, and there's a part for everybody," council member says.

When artist Hannah Hasan drives past Bank of America Stadium, she remembers. Not a football game or a concert but Joseph McNeely, a brother, a son and a Black man who was killed by a white mob in 1913 ...

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - The author of a book about civil rights icon Clyde Kennard was in Hattiesburg Friday to promote his work and the legacy of his subject. Devery Anderson, who wrote, “A Slow, ...

(MONTGOMERY, Ala.) — The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, also referred to as the lynching museum, opens in Montgomery, Alabama, on Thursday. The memorial and museum are a project of the ...