An online interactive map allows its users to see where lynchings in the United States have occurred. The Monroe Work Today research group has compiled information from nearly every documented ...

Study by economists is thought to be the first to quantitively estimate the effects of racial terror against Mexicans in the U.S. on U.S.-born Mexican Americans The ...

SHREVEPORT, La. -- It's a tree, a very old, massive Southern live oak. There are some who say its branches were used for hangings, and worse, public lynchings. That tree on the Milam Street side of ...

Carroll County’s history of racial violence, including the 1885 lynching of an African American man named Townsend Cook, was the subject of a weekend hearing in Westminster. The event Saturday was ...

While it might look more like a photo taken at the Sears Family Portrait Studio, this photo in 1930 is of the victim of the last man lynched in North Dakota and the lawman who initially brought him to ...

President Biden is expected to sign into law the first bill that specifies lynching as a federal hate crime. The Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act, which Congress passed on March 7, enables the ...