| 单词 | lynch |
| 例句 | The fact that an accused man was deprived of a fair trial, kidnapped and murdered by a lynch mob from a Mississippi jail apparently had no effect on the thinking of the Grand Jury. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z We don't drag people out of their beds in the middle of the night and lynch them. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z “The lynching. The last one in Little Rock was in 1927.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z What hope is there when a white jury won’t even look at the evidence against the lynch mob?” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Along with other white supremacist groups, the Klan began murdering African American men, women, and children by setting fire to homes, bombing churches, and lynching blacks on a scale never before witnessed. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Also, we worked on reports and materials that seek to deepen the national conversation about the legacy of slavery and lynching and our nation's history of racial injustice. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Now, for the first time, lynchings were being publicly spoken about in the news, whereas before they seemed to be a silent hobby of the white folks. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It was another lynching, yet another Black man hanging on a tree. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It had been more than three years since the arrests, but when Tate and the other officers started making threats of lynching, Walter was terrified. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Along with the lynchings, the Red Summer would be characterized by the race riots that erupted in some thirty cities in the United States. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Johnny Lightbourne, a boy close to my age, suggested we beat him up, but then we read in the Amsterdam News about a black man in the South who had been lynched by hanging. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z One of her closest friends, the father of her godchild, was lynched. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Out of the horrific tragedies of lynchings and race riots would come an awakening of black America. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z It was the first time I saw a lynching. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z When black men had been lynched or otherwise murdered in cold blood, it was always said, ‘ ‘Things will get better. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Chas appeared out of nowhere, standing right next to me like the tree I was about to be lynched from. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Turner assumed there was nothing he could do to help the man without risking a lynching himself. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I guessed he had come from an area of the country where being lynched meant something a lot more serious than we knew about. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Mrs. Malloy says Negro people came here to escape lynching and inhumane treatment. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Their campaign to “redeem” the South was reinforced by a resurgent Ku Klux Klan, which fought a terrorist campaign against Reconstruction governments and local leaders, complete with bombings, lynchings, and mob violence. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z This was the closest thing one could get to institutionalized trial by lynch mob. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z None of the men in the pub offered to lynch me. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Of the hundreds of black people lynched, nearly all were killed without being charged with a crime, let alone being legally convicted. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z I had never in my life been abused by whites, but I had already become as conditioned to their existence as though I had been the victim of a thousand lynchings. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The lynching and the callous decision of the Pearl River County Grand Jury were surely on all their minds. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Walter heard his parents and relatives talk about lynchings when he was a young child. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z America’s embrace of speedy executions was, in part, an attempt to redirect the violent energies of lynching while assuring white southerners that black men would still pay the ultimate price. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It would be a lot easier to figure out what the hell was going on without a roomful of drunks threatening to lynch me. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z They would have lynched him if they could. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Fletcher flogged and arrested, more likely lynched for harboring no mere slaves but murderers. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Three white men were arrested two years later and details of the lynching were finally made public. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z They were shot, hanged, maimed, lynched, and generally hounded until they were either dead or their spirits broken. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z If there wasn’t so much riding on it, if hundreds of people didn’t already feel like running to the city council to get an emergency resolution passed legalizing lynching, it would have been laughable. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Did you hear about Edward Foster? They nearly lynched the poor old man simply because he said too many of our boys are dying in the war. And him a distinguished veteran.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Homes had been bombed, jobs lost, and people lynched for less. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z I have my concerns about making it back to Rose Hill in one piece anyway, but I ain’t getting out of town at all if I'm lynched. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Look sister, we know the facts: you spent the first twenty-one years of your life in the lynching country, in a county whose population is two-thirds agricultural Negro. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z There had been lynchings and cross burnings for that kind of thing. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z When they did a lynching, they made us leave the body hanging, to put a terror in the colored folk. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A white mob lynched Private Charles Lewis in Hickman, Kentucky, when he refused to empty his pockets while wearing his army uniform. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z I could grab the little one, but I would probably be lynched as a child snatcher before I had the chance to show my detective's badge. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Du Bois ends the tragic story when the furious judge catches up to John with the lynch mob he has assembled. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Hundreds of black men have been lynched for even unsubstantiated suggestions of such intimacy. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z A freckled woman unfamiliar to Cora—so many strangers these days—carried on about the lynchings in a loud voice. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z A risk-taking journalist, he’d previously worked for Look magazine and Esquire, and was the author of two books, including a history of lynching in America. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Dozens of additional lynchings had taken place in neighboring counties—and the true power of those lynchings far exceeded their number. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z My mind went immediately to Mr. Harvey, the man who had been lynched in my great-grandmother’s church. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The song never says why they were lynched. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Every black person in the South lived with the knowledge that he or she could be lynched by intentionally or accidentally violating the sensibilities of any white person with whom they came into contact. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z At the time, extrajudicial lynchings, particularly of blacks in the South, were one of the most egregious failures of the American legal system. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z More serious infractions, or a blatant disregard of Klan warnings, resulted in beatings, whippings, and, occasionally, lynchings. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z To be sure, one lynching is one too many. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z A high-yellow dream child with long brown hair braided into two lynch ropes that hung down her back. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Civilian militias and patrollers lynched three times that in response—conspirators, sympathizers, and innocents—to set an example. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Pete had been twisting and screaming all get-out, but those men seemed to double their strength when they seen the lynching rope coming. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Now hurry up. I'm not trying to get lynched because of you.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z They would speak together with Papa about the tragic lynchings of young black men and women, and other challenges afflicting the black community. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z High spots in Stamps were usually negative: droughts, floods, lynchings and deaths. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The first is the obvious decrease in lynchings over time. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The lynching of Charley, who was known by Walter's family, was believed to have been prompted by an interracial romance. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Things I overheard at Papa’s funeral, when I was much too small to understand: There might not have been a rope, but it was a lynching all the same. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z There might not he a rope, but it’s a lynching all the same. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I crated up Ma’s tinker tools, trying to keep my mind afloat, never giving a settling chance to things like lynchings, drownings, and sheep killings. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z When he caught us lynching Richard, he turned about five shades whiter. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z “I’m persuaded. Those turkeys were no joke, though. Got a man lynched, understand? You steer clear of Mrs. Bourne from now on even if you have to go out of your way.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I had never before considered how devastated John's community must have felt after his lynching. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Notwithstanding that, he would have been lynched by the populace had he not been clever enough to give them the slip. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Ida recalled, “The lynching...changed the whole course of my life.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Just as outrageous, the vast majority of those lynched were murdered for what amounted to the most minor offenses against white supremacy. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z I might have claimed it was to soothe her, but really, it was so I didn’t have to think about lynchings and death threats and robes in the closet. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the ways the laws were enforced was by lynching. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “No ... I haven’t heard anything . . .” He told me the Mississippi jury refused to indict in the Parker lynch case. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of the gun or the lynch rope, they reached for the telephone. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z My own grandfather had been lynched about thirty years before by a mob of white demons almost the moment he had set foot on their shores. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Third, relative to the size of the black population, lynchings were exceedingly rare. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The sheriff was referring to the lynching of a young African American man named Michael Donald in Mobile, about sixty miles south. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The guys in Weed start a party out to lynch Lennie. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Those who carried out the lynchings made certain that, whenever possible, they were a public spectacle. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z It evokes, really evokes, the lynched body I saw. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z As of 1920, about 13 out of every 100 black children died in infancy, or roughly 20,000 children each year—compared to 28 people who were lynched in a year. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z And that thought had a brother: “There are right people to lynch.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z But by the turn of the century, lynchings were hardly the everyday occurrence that they are often considered in the public recollection. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z George's father was summarily fired from his job; his family was told to leave town or else they would be lynched. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Thomas Miles was lynched for allegedly inviting a white woman to have a cold drink with him. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z They talked about the women Blue had had, and the fights he’d been in when he was younger, about how he talked his way out of getting lynched once, and how others hadn’t. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The most compelling explanation is that all those early lynchings worked. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z What is known is the truth about the barbaric practice of lynching has, in many ways, been suppressed and that this form of racial torture and murder left deep scars that remain with us today. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Most likely, the “incident” was a lynching or the Klan torching a house or neighborhood. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z You tell them, ‘But they lynched my papa,’ and they say, ‘Yeah, but you’re better than the lynchers are, so forget it.’ Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “But people who lynch and slice off people’s balls—they’re crazy, Guitar, crazy.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z It was another lynching, yet another Black man hanging on a tree. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Not “oppression,” not “the threat of violence,” not even “lynching,” but a horrific physical image. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Readers understood that, so, when they came to the crucifixion, they naturally thought, and Rosewater read out loud again: Oh, boy—they sure picked the wrong guy to lynch that time! Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Authorities were determined to prevent a lynch mob from storming the District of Columbia jail. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The woman sitting next to her shakes her head, says, “How in the world is Truman going to say he upholds the Constitution when he won’t pass legislation to end lynching?” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z They would have surely found Uncle Willie and just as surely lynched him. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z At least in Virginia, lynch mobs maintained a pretext of spontaneity. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z At the same time, more racially motivated riots and lynchings occurred than at any time in the country’s history. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Nearly a dozen people had been lynched in Monroe County alone since its incorporation. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Her father told her stories of how the recently emancipated black people were essentially re-enslaved by former Confederate officers and soldiers, who used violence, intimidation, lynching, and peonage to keep African Americans subordinate and marginalized. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “Oh, that. Well, to hear the Post tell it, we lynch ’em for breakfast; the Journal doesn’t care; and the Times is so wrapped up in its duty to posterity it bores you to death. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z I wove a tale of a group of black boys trespassing upon the property of a white man and the lynching that followed. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Bear in mind that these figures represent not only lynchings attributed to the Ku Klux Klan but the total number of reported lynchings. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “It was... he was lynched. For saying the governor was...” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Here, compiled by the Tuskegee Institute, are the decade-by-decade statistics on the lynching of blacks in the United States. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Consider lynching, the Klan’s hallmark sign of violence. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z What larger truths do these lynching figures suggest? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “Catch up tonight, okay? Chapter twenty-seven in your American history book talks about how churches were bombed, houses were burned, people were lynched. History MADE.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z In what amounted to a carnival-like atmosphere, vendors sold all types of food, printers sold postcards of the lynching and the corpse, and photographers took souvenir pictures of the smiling eyewitnesses. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z When we think of racism we think of Governor Wallace of Alabama blocking the schoolhouse door; we think of water hoses, lynchings, racial epithets, and “whites only” signs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Jeff Brown was lynched in Cedarbluff, Mississippi, for accidentally bumping into a white girl while he was running to catch a train. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z In the era of mass lynching, it was so difficult to find who, specifically, served as executioner that such deaths were often reported by the press as having happened “at the hands of persons unknown.” Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “Sure the boys got off, but you can’t tell me the next peckerwood who’s got lynching on his mind isn’t going to worry just a little that he might end up in a courtroom.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z Some lynch mobs actually forced an entire black community to attend a lynching as a means of instilling fear in their hearts or making members of that community leave the region. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The racial terrorism of lynching in many ways created the modern death penalty. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z One or two lynchings went a long way toward inducing docility among even a large group of people, for people respond strongly to strong incentives. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “And he said there would be no more lynching. ...” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z It will never be known exactly how many African Americans were lynched in 1919 or in the years preceding or following that pivotal year. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z White activists also used lynching for a purpose other than applying their own form of “justice.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z In 1871, in the largest mass lynching in American history, seventeen Chinese men were murdered by a mob of five hundred, in Los Angeles. The Two Asian Americas 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z One is that it was so bloody, and violent, full of terrorism, and lynching was perfected as a form of vigilante injustice against black people. Henry Louis Gates Jr. on why Jay-Z is wrong about racism dying off 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z But one of the men who was a child at the time and grew up in that little town said that my father had seen two black men lynched on his street. Toni Morrison on Her Last Novel and the Voices of Her Characters 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z He threw down the race card, called the whole process a “high-tech lynching,” and ultimately was confirmed. Anita Hill reflects on her fateful testimony, 23 years later 2014-03-26T21:44:39Z In 1962, the white lawyer in “To Kill a Mockingbird” confronts a lynch mob intent on hanging his client, an innocent Black man, later telling the jury, “In our courts, all men are created equal.” A Movie House Divided 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z We need to stop sensationalizing the upcoming news about Charlie Sheen and use this as a teachable moment to promote awareness, education, and prevention, not the latest celebrity lynch mob. Stop gloating over Charlie Sheen’s “hookers” and hook-ups: HIV isn’t punishment for promiscuity or sex work 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z The "outcasts" later lynch him during what looks like underwear night at the local dance hall. Carmen ? review 2011-01-18T21:30:00Z At the lynching memorial, I looked for Orleans Parish, and held my breath. A Visit to Montgomery’s Legacy Museum 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z I had no idea Asian Americans were lynched and that was part of the history there too. Hari Kondabolu: "It works in the interest of those with power" to divide people of color 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z Others in the camp did have relationships as best they could, but nobody could know about him: he would have been lynched, both by the camp's authorities and his co-internees. Herta Müller: a life in books 2012-11-30T22:55:01Z Images of white Southerners spitting on black students, and news of white lynch mobs killing children like Emmett Till, shocked the world. Op-Ed Contributor: Racial Politics and Miss America 2013-01-16T00:57:43Z It evoked, of course, the Billie Holiday song “Strange Fruit,” about lynchings in a pastoral Southern landscape: “Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,” she sang. On a Caribbean Rum Trail 2014-02-21T19:02:44Z The song, originally performed by Billie Holiday based on a poem by Abel Meeropol, contains gut-wrenching imagery of black lynching victims swinging from Southern tree limbs in the early 20th century. Rebecca Ferguson Says She'll Sing for Trump's Inauguration on One Condition 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z In one particularly harmful passage, de Visé shows his ignorance of racial stereotypes, specifically the idea of Black male hypersexuality and White female vulnerability that fueled hundreds of lynchings throughout the South. Review | A new biography depicts B.B. King as ‘the first guitar hero.’ But does it truly see him? 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z My county Leflore was the lynching capital of Mississippi, which per capita lynched more African Americans than any other state, and many of these lynchings took place in the Leflore County Massacre of 1889. Fahrenheit 2023: Even in Mississippi’s segregation academies, we learned about Emmett Till 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z Charles Booker, the state legislator running in the Democratic primary to challenge Mitch McConnell for Senate in Kentucky, mentions reparations on his campaign website, noting his own family’s history of lynching and enslavement. How Reparations for Slavery Became a 2020 Campaign Issue 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z “Our president is being lynched, and we are not going to stand for it,” she said, using a term that the president has used to describe his struggle against the House’s impeachment inquiry. The Trump campaign held a Halloween ‘Witch Hunt Party’ and tortured a metaphor to death 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Three small, undated photographs that Mr. Als has placed near David Baldwin’s portrait help explain the environment that shaped him: they depict lead-up scenes of a lynching. James Baldwin: Pessimist, Optimist, Hero 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z He knew about the lynching of black Americans and of atrocities against Native Americans. 5 Latino authors you should be reading now 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z The newest of these venues, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, aims at bringing hidden chapters of American history into contemporary consciousness — specifically the legacies of slavery and lynching. Following the Civil Rights Trail 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z Months later, Frank was lynched by a mob. ‘Parade’ Producers Condemn Neo-Nazi Protest at Show About Antisemitism 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Dr. Muhammad, a historian, said the most widely circulated images of that period show African-Americans in dire poverty or being lynched. ‘Envisioning Emancipation’: Book Documents Slavery’s End 2012-12-21T22:48:45Z “They are living with rumors and speculation, in just the same way that people in towns that have been dealing with historic lynching still don’t have answers.” Always in Season: behind the painful film about lynching in America 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z Based on actual postcards, and his visits to where lynchings took place, Mr. Gonzales-Day’s work shows crowds gathered at places across America, such as California and Montana, to watch the hangings. At Michigan State, Bold Statements About Big Issues 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z Perhaps only the visceral horror that lynching inspired gave Meeropol the necessary conviction to write a song with no precedent, one that required a new songwriting vocabulary. Strange Fruit: the first great protest song 2011-02-16T08:00:05Z Not only did Finch ably defend Robinson in court; one evening he also faced down a mob that sought to abduct the defendant from jail in order to lynch him. Harper Lee’s ‘Go Set a Watchman’ 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z He is also known for approving of Hitler and condoning lynching in the South as a necessary evil to prevent interracial relationships. Living While Black in ‘Lovecraft Country’ 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z Ms. Mock shows the ways the Senate proceedings quickly collapsed amid racial unease after Mr. Thomas declared that his confirmation was imperiled as a result of a “high-tech lynching.” Movie Review: ‘Anita’ Revisits the Clarence Thomas Hearings 2014-03-20T23:42:19Z But given that lynchings have historically been directed by whites against African-Americans, the introduction is mortifyingly tone-deaf. ‘Son of the South’ Review: Tale of an Alabama Activist 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z Thomas denied the allegations and called the proceedings “a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks.” Anita Hill and her 1991 congressional defenders to Joe Biden: You were part of the problem 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z “Strange Fruit,” he said, invoking one of Billie Holiday’s trademark songs, about the frequent image of lynching victims. Artist Sews Together Sports and Geopolitics 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z These lynchings remain of America’s greatest acts of domestic terrorism. For Roy Wood Jr., Alabama Is Painful History, New Hope and Home 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z But the sort of execution-style shooting takes it to this whole other place that starts approaching the language of lynching, and public lynching, and bodies in the street that people are walking around. On Being Seen: An Interview with Claudia Rankine from Ferguson 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z A Lawrence painting of lynching is very different, stark: a noose hung from a knife-blade of a branch against a blank sky. Review: ‘One-Way Ticket’ at MoMA Reunites Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Paintings 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z The National Memorial for Peace and Justice commemorates 4,400 black people who were slain in lynchings and other racial killings between 1877 and 1950. Lynching memorial and museum in Alabama draw crowds, tears 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z “It was never an intention to be exploitive but rather a need to remind people that it wasn’t just whippings and lynchings,” Mr. Ridley added. The Carpetbagger: What the Writer Had to Edit From ‘12 Years a Slave’ 2014-01-16T23:00:12Z What we have is an online version of The Lottery, or any B-western where everyone is suddenly storming the jail to lynch the innocent prisoner. When the Cyberbully Is You 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z It was only years later, as Platt grew up, that he encountered the rest of the show, and realized what it was actually about — the 20th-century lynching of a Jewish Southerner, fueled by antisemitism. Ben Platt on the Unfortunate Timeliness of His ‘Parade’ Revival 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z Ida B. Wells's plan to bring awareness to lynchings in the South was strategic and effective. The dangerous spectacle of racist violence viral videos: Who are those images for? 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z “This 23-year old kid was looking at lynching, voter rights, riots in St. Louis of all places, the capricious incarceration of black men,” she said. Jacob Lawrence’s Great Migration Series Returns to MoMA 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z Dark costumes with executioner-style hoods and projected film images of lynching trees and burning cities echo the boiling music. A Goth Male Soprano Who Plumbs the Darkness 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z I said that I’d kind of been hoping I wouldn’t find it—that Breckinridge might be the sole Southern county in which there had been no lynchings. A Visit to Montgomery’s Legacy Museum 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z In the vacuum, Cowie explains, emerged “the neoslavery of convict leasing, the vigilante justice of lynching, the degradation and debt of sharecropping and the official disenfranchisement of Blacks” under Jim Crow. When Freedom Meant the Freedom to Oppress Others 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z Over the decades, the actors spoke out against lynching, protested apartheid in South Africa and pressured white-owned banks to give business loans to blacks in Harlem. Ruby Dee, actress and civil rights activist, dies at 91 When Williams is arrested and jailed, a lynch mob forms. A Dead White Girl, a Black Suspect and Justice on the Jersey Shore 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z Twice, Carroll referred to the investigation of his client – who is African-American -- as a “lynching.” Prosecutors: Man partied after shooting cop 2011-09-20T20:08:00Z He did some editing, changing the ending from archival footage of a lynching to borrowed shots of the beating victims Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman. Right Out of Hollywood, a Witness to History 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z Those lynchings were recorded in public records without identifying details; pillars list the victims simply as “unknown.” On a Kentucky Riverbank, a Path to Remembrance 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z It's equality and social justice and equal access to public education, or not accepting that it's OK that we're continuing to lynch Black Americans, with police officers doing just that. "Roy Cohn" filmmaker Ivy Meeropol on her new HBO doc about the man who killed her grandparents 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z Just 25 miles from Parks’s home, Evans was imprisoned, pulled out of the jail window, and tortured and lynched by a mob of more than 1,000 White people. Review | With his camera, Gordon Parks humanized the Black people others saw as simply criminals 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z A TV salesman emerges from his basement to discover a dead body hanging from a lamppost, but his neighbors are strangely sanguine about the lynching. Review | ‘Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams’ is a companion anthology to the new TV show 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z In light of new research from the Equal Justice Initiative about the prevalence of lynchings and the country’s demonic success at rendering them historically invisible, this extraordinary novel could not be more relevant. The most unsettling, must-read novel this year: ‘Welcome to Braggsville’ 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z “Florida, you kill me,” Stew sings, with your “hanging chads and lynching boys.” Review: ‘Notes of a Native Song’ Is Stew’s Homage to James Baldwin 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z It was the false accusations of white women that led to lynching. Anita Hill's seismic testimony and its reckoning 30 years later: "She was in no woman's land" 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z Should they treat him like any other black person – as a social inferior, with violence and perhaps lynching in store if he transgressed local racial mores? The Queen 2012-06-11T11:00:00Z The night passed without incident — the Klansmen did not call — but if they had, Angelou wrote, “they would have surely found Uncle Willie and just as surely lynched him.” A Racist World, Described by Those Who Knew It 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z In Washington DC, a local newspaper wondered whether it might actually provoke a new wave of lynchings. Strange Fruit: the first great protest song 2011-02-16T08:00:05Z He was the “cat who wants to lynch you from a low tree.” Books of The Times: Bruce Watson?s ?Freedom Summer? in Mississippi 2010-07-18T21:55:00Z “We will vigorously resist this attempted public lynching of a black man who has made extraordinary contributions to our culture,” it said in a statement. R. Kelly Again Denies Sexual Abuse Allegations (and an Unauthorized Denial) 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z “Mr. Caldwell was lynched by 40 to 60 people,” said attorney James Bryant. Family says lax security allowed killing of rapper Drakeo 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z After Hill’s testimony, Thomas told the committee that he would not answer any further questions, angrily calling the hearing “a high-tech lynching.” ‘It was just awful’: The Clarence Thomas hearings, in the words of those who were there 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Jack Turner was lynched in Butler, Alabama, in 1882 for organizing black voters in Choctaw County. A Memorial to the Lingering Horror of Lynching 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Black people were lynched for doing anything from annoying a white woman to simply voting. For Roy Wood Jr., Alabama Is Painful History, New Hope and Home 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z They frequently took as their subject matter sexual violence against black women and lynching. The Rape of Recy Taylor: behind one of the year's most vital documentaries 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z The history of lynching in the United States is in part a history of public spectacle, in which the mutilation and murder of Black men brought out white crowds to stare, cheer and take photographs. The Responsibility of Watching 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z She fought against lynching and fought for women’s suffrage and laid the groundwork for the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Ida B. Wells was a legend. $300,000 has been pledged for a monument honoring her. 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z In the musical “Parade,” it is not enough that Leo Frank is lynched; to make him fully human he must be transfigured by love. Review: In ‘The Doctor,’ a Rare Case of Physician, Harm Thyself 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z Yes, he has turned a doctor who in real life was lynched by a mob into a kung fu expert who lynches the mob instead. In a City of Monuments, History Lives Onstage and in the Streets 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z Responding to Mr. Linder’s point, Mr. Valdez wrote that images of black victims of lynching are indeed “shameful and should never be forgotten.” When the Painting Is Provocative but the Museum Is Cautious 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z The compressed, concise intensity turns “Vicious Muse,” “Veins and Veils” and “Sadness Comes Home” into harrowing thrill rides, with vocalist Jacob Bannon singing as though he’s fleeing a lynch mob. Album review: Converge, 'All We Love We Leave Behind' 2012-10-15T16:08:00Z For lynching is not exclusive to Southern white supremacists, and scholars have only lately begun the work of understanding the diversity of popular-justice phenomena worldwide. Frontier justice was brutal in Los Angeles, and 'Eternity Street' gets to the heart of the matter 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z So there are signs of great hope in terms of our precious fellow citizens hitting the streets and showing their deep outrage of a public lynching of a precious Black man. Cornel West: Is America ‘even capable of treating the masses of Black people with decency and dignity’? 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z I have the same suspicion about some ghastly lithographs of lynching and electrocution. George Bellows: Modern American Life – review 2013-03-17T00:05:47Z Public lynchings in the late 1800s and early 1900s were used as a method to maintain racial conformity by terrorizing and instilling fear in Black Americans. The dangerous spectacle of racist violence viral videos: Who are those images for? 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Gaines lifted the flag to reveal two stark paintings that appeared to depict lynchings. Julian Gaines Has a Question: ‘How Do I Paint Oregon Black?’ 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z You do not expect the star of a musical about a man lynched by an antisemitic mob to be his wife. Review: A Pageant of Love and Antisemitism, in ‘Parade’ 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Nearby, a mob of white people lynched nearly three dozen Chinese men and boys in 1871. An Opera About Colonialism Shows How History Warps 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z Fortunately, Delvin’s employer is a master at placating local town leaders with happy pictures of “antic burlesque,” while secretly displaying photographs of lynchings for their real patrons. Why write a novel about a race that’s not your own? The case of ‘Ginny Gall’ 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z After speaking with Mr. Noah and Bryan Stevenson of the Equal Justice Initiative about the history of lynchings in America, Ms. Day performed Billie Holiday’s classic anti-lynching anthem “Strange Fruit.” Trevor Noah Says Trump’s Rally in Arizona Seemed Like a Success — Kind Of 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z With much ground to cover — including Robeson’s long campaign against lynching — “The Tallest Tree in the Forest” can sometimes make abrupt or confusing transitions. Review: Daniel Beaty as Paul Robeson in ‘The Tallest Tree in the Forest’ 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z We wouldn't use lynching in so many movies and books and act as though it were an everyday occurrence. Letters to Calendar 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z The people in her program were not calling for her to be lynched. Lohan director explains why we hate Lindsay 2010-07-08T15:30:00Z Consider that the association of white people wielding fire against Black bodies invokes a horrific history of lynching. Spring breakers import Cuban rum, cigars and racist curios 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z In 1871, in the largest mass lynching in American history, seventeen Chinese men were murdered by a mob of five hundred in Los Angeles. The Two Asian Americas 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z But the threat of his lynching hangs over the story like a morning mist on the Atlantic. A Dead White Girl, a Black Suspect and Justice on the Jersey Shore 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z Although there were several photographers in town, none of them took the opportunity to record — or expose — the lynchings. The dark day of mob rule and lynching as sport in Seattle 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z "Parade," a musical about the lynching of a Jewish factory worker, closed after barely two months but earned Brown, then just 28, his first Tony Award in 1999. 'The Bridges of Madison County' crosses into lush terrains, composer promises 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z It showed the face of Emmett Till, the Black boy from Chicago who was lynched at 14 while visiting Mississippi in one of the most brutal hate crimes of the last century. Julian Gaines Has a Question: ‘How Do I Paint Oregon Black?’ 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z Archival photographs of lynched Black bodies displayed in surrounding vitrines say no. Art Meets Its Soundtrack Deep in ‘The Dirty South’ 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z Fleeing Jim Crow racism and lynching, they landed in cities across the Northeast, West and Midwest, including Minneapolis. How Minneapolis made Prince 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z Drawing on the music, the dance delves into the often-overlooked history of lynchings in America while connecting them to modern racial terrorism; it’s a rare work that belongs to the genre of horror. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z After his laborer father was nearly lynched, the young man fled, and eventually stowed away on a freighter that deposited him in Scotland. Battlefields: Recent Books in Military History 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z The figure stands before an image of a lynching and atop a washboard bearing a fragment of a poem by Langston Hughes: “I’ve been a victim: The Belgians cut off my hands in the Congo.” Betye Saar's gun-totin' mammies turn stereotype into power at the Craft & Folk Art Museum 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z One of Dr. Keith’s signs listed the casualties: 11 Black men lynched, more than 100 rioters killed and some 2,000 Black residents driven from the city. Amid the Monument Wars, a Rally for ‘More History’ 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z Thousands of African-Americans were murdered by lynching alone. The Tumultuous Path From Emancipation to Segregation 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z His 2012 play “Appropriate,” a drama set in Arkansas about estranged siblings who are reunited after the family’s patriarch passes away, explores racial relationships after a collection of lynching photographs is found. Why a MacArthur Foundation grant for playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, 31, is no surprise at all 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z It was a violent decade, Darwinian and cruel in many ways, defined by racial hatred in the North and lynchings in the South. James Lee Burke: By the Book 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z Along a slope that descends toward the Tennessee River, Meadows has fashioned silhouettes of figures that represent other Black men who were lynched in Hamilton County. Some Asked, ‘Does Chattanooga Need a Lynching Memorial?’ 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z It was a message to the G.I.s and to the broader community that the abuses, murders and lynchings of people in our community was not caused by Vietnam or the Vietnamese. Fifty Years Later, Black Panthers’ Art Still Resonates 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z The memorial, which confronts the trauma and legacy of lynching, opened in Montgomery in April 2018 and welcomed 400,000 visitors in its first year. The battle for Alabama’s soul 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z Films exploring racial injustice date to the early 20th century at least, and the work of the pioneering black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux, who put issues like lynching and voting rights onscreen. Going Hyperlocal, Filmmakers Explore the Pain of Racism 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z Some deemed Alsina’s post a sign of disrespect to victims of lynchings and their families. Hip hop star convinces fans he has hanged himself on Instagram 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z And so they photographed the lynchings, made postcards from the images, and distributed flesh torn from the body as souvenirs. Review | A powerful memorial in Montgomery remembers the victims of lynching 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z The columnist Liz Smith once proposed in print that I be lynched in Shubert Alley, which was one of the more thrilling moments of my career. ArtsBeat: Ben Brantley Answers Readers' Questions, Part 2 2012-12-06T16:13:06Z Over the course of this absorbing story, Julian and Kendall’s relationship is threatened by a lynching in Jim Crow-era Florida, encouraged in bohemian Greenwich Village and reignited after World War II. ‘Wherever There Is Light’ review: A tale of lovers caught in history 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z That same year, a lynching forced black journalist Ida B. Wells to flee her home town of Memphis. Why more places are abandoning Columbus Day in favor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z The song, made famous by Billie Holiday in 1939, protested against racism in America, specifically the lynching of African-Americans in the Deep South. Lennox 'challenged' by jazz album 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z Images include lynchings, bread lines, a Ku Klux Klan march. ‘Americans and the Holocaust’ Review: What We Could Have Done 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z Here was another stark parallel with the work she had already done on historical lynching. Always in Season: behind the painful film about lynching in America 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z White women, white feminine identity, and the "protection" of white women played a central role in the widespread lynchings of the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as segregation later on. Fewer people are naming kids Karen, and we think we know why 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z For example, Laura Pulido's "Landscapes of Racial Violence" recounts specific sites of historical atrocities such as the lynchings that once took place outside of the city's early jail near Grand Park. 'LAtitudes' navigates the histories and cultures of L.A. 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z “Activists are already threatening me with a public lynching”, Polanski said in a statement, adding he wanted to protect his staff and family. Filmmaker Polanski will not attend 'French Oscars' in Paris over criticism 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z Northerners who wanted to see lynching as a Southern problem couldn’t comfort themselves with their own pretensions to enlightenment. When Jim Crow Violence Came to a Small New York Village 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z The small chorus of well-informed voices could simply not be heard over the thunder of the partisan lynch mob. The ambassador’s tale: Lessons I learned about success and scandal 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z Not knowing any of this, Ned responds to Rooster's proposition of being murdered immediately or lynched in a day or two by rudely taunting him. Clip joint: 'Bad-ass one-liners' 2012-06-13T13:15:03Z “An audience is like a lynch mob. Three years ago they were walking out on me. Now that they know we’ve been on the Sullivan show, they come and cheer.” Glenn Yarbrough, Folk Singer With the Limeliters, Dies at 86 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z The memorial had to focus on the impact and legacy of lynching, which often involved amputations, mutilation, torture and castration. Review | A powerful memorial in Montgomery remembers the victims of lynching 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z “Is it documentation, or is it people’s generational understanding and memory around these stories. I’ve done the research to understand that a lot of evidence around lynching is never documented.” Always in Season: behind the painful film about lynching in America 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z His father’s family was from near Selma, and the terrorism of slavery and lynchings and Jim Crow were close to home. Spike Lee: ‘I get no joy from being right. I wanted progress’ 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z Yet he retained tremendous support – and, in his infamous defence, called the hearings a “hi-tech lynching”. Kimberlé Crenshaw: the woman who revolutionised feminism – and landed at the heart of the culture wars 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z Common released in November his eleventh album, "Black America Again," which he hopes will spark a retelling of the black American experience and a past that includes lynchings, discrimination and other injustices. U.S. rapper Common on teaming up with '13TH' director 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, opening Thursday, is dedicated to 4,400 individuals who lost their lives in lynchings and other racial killings between 1877 and 1950. Lynching memorial and museum in Montgomery open to public 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z The renderings are powerful; 800 columns, one for each county where lynchings took place, are suspended in the air like hanging bodies. In the South and North, New (and Vital) Civil Rights Trails 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z Jenkins said White coached him through his own grief, recalling a particularly challenging day recreating the book’s “Freedom Trail,” a long road in North Carolina lined with the victims of lynching. The Epic Journey to ‘The Underground Railroad’ 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z White men who hoped to see the Black man hanged clashed with Black men who arrived to prevent a lynching. Behind the Jim Crow Curtain 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z Before selective erasure by the artist, they depicted lynched Mexican-Americans, and thus symbolize a pernicious historic amnesia. | ?Phantom Sightings?: ?Phantom Sightings? at El Museo del Barrio 2010-04-09T23:01:00Z A series of tall, signboardlike plaques in the galleries list the names of thousands of black lynching victims. The New Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Refuses to Sugarcoat History 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z Conceived as a single immense installation, it’s dedicated to more than 4,000 African-Americans who were lynched by white Americans, and evokes their deaths in a language of stripped-down abstract sculpture. A Memorial to the Lingering Horror of Lynching 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z The Equal Justice Initiative's map tells stories of people who were lynched. How Black cartographers put racism on the map of America 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z I recommended him to the Head of State for a secret lynching, but the fool escaped through the salty waters of the Atlantic Ocean at night, like a fish. The Swimming Pool by Jekwu Anyaegbuna 2013-03-16T09:01:08Z But even more effective has been their campaign to focus on lynching. Perspective | Competing monuments in the cradle of the Confederacy and the Civil Rights movement 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Born into slavery in Holly Springs, Miss., Wells became a crusading African American journalist who exposed the crime and shame of lynching and fought for women’s suffrage. ‘You can’t just gloss over this history’: The movement to honor Ida B. Wells gains momentum 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z When he was arrested and brought to a local prison, a lynch mob of several hundred people awaited his arrival. Books of The Times: ?In the Place of Justice,? Wilbert Rideau?s Prison Memoir 2010-05-04T22:14:00Z The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a longtime civil-rights activist, said after visiting the memorial that it would help to dispel America’s silence on lynching. Lynching memorial and museum in Alabama draw crowds, tears 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z The video of his horrific lynching was recently released by Memphis authorities. Tyre Nichols and American traditions: How do we give kids "The Talk" about police now? 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z Set atop a hill in the city that helped birth the civil rights movement, it is a somber pergola of hanging, coffinlike forms, each one representing the victims of lynchings in single county. Perspective | Best of museums 2018: It was a year to pay attention to new voices 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Standing in a deserted hallway, Hill takes issue with Thomas’s metaphor, as the granddaughter of a man threatened with lynching. Does HBO’s ‘Confirmation’ favor Anita Hill? Kerry Washington and others say no way. 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z The fondest mementos of his youth are the shoes he takes off a lynched man’s feet. REVIEW: 'Get On Up' Is a Loud, Proud and Oscar-Worthy James Brown Biopic 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z If people really didn’t like it, we’re going to get lynched.” The Carpetbagger: 'Tinker, Tailor' Confused Even the Screenwriter 2012-02-23T21:18:54Z The Equal Justice Initiative, to whom we owe these new institutions, has an excellent website on lynching in America and its continued legacy. Art That Confronts and Challenges Racism: Start Here 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z Its new album, “Visions of Bodies Being Burned,” due Friday, tells stories of lynching victims returning as vengeful ghosts and describes the bloody tableaus after three police officers meet their demise. 2020 Is Chaotic. Clipping’s New Horror-Rap Album Captures It. 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z The exhibition includes images of their 2018 National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Ala., commonly known as the memorial to the victims of lynching. Perspective | What should a coronavirus memorial look like? This powerful statement on gun violence offers a model. 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z Tubman never wholly retired and, amid early 20th-century Black struggles against segregation and lynching, she promoted efforts to win votes for Black and white women up until her death. Finding Traces of Harriet Tubman on Maryland’s Eastern Shore 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson after the comedian was caught on video using the N-word and making a lynching reference on stage against a black heckler. N-word controversy: Is Paula Deen done for? 2013-06-25T20:19:18Z In the National Museum of African American History and Culture, a display about minstrel shows sits about eight feet from a display on lynching. Navigating minstrelsy in Kander & Ebb’s ‘The Scottsboro Boys’ 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z In large part our limited knowledge of Reconstruction is immortalized in chilling black and white photos of lynched African Americans surrounded by grinning mobs of whites. Henry Louis Gates Jr. on why Jay-Z is wrong about racism dying off 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z In the "Poor Jud is Dead" sequence, Curly's urging the farmhand to hang by a rope inevitably brings to mind racist lynchings — not the mock suicide the satirical lyrics allude to. Provocative 'Oklahoma!' hits 5th Avenue stage 2012-02-11T00:06:04Z Jim Eastman was lynched in Brunswick, Tennessee, in 1887 for not allowing a white man to beat him in a fight. A Memorial to the Lingering Horror of Lynching 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Wells had come to see lynching as “an excuse to get rid of Negroes who were acquiring wealth and property and thus keep the race terrorized.” A Dead White Girl, a Black Suspect and Justice on the Jersey Shore 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z Then Stevenson took the helm as the director and public face of a narrative museum and monument to lynching in his adopted city of Montgomery. Bryan Stevenson: the lawyer devoting his life to fighting injustice 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z “The lynching was seen as a conservative act, a defense of the status quo,” Dray wrote in “At the Hands.” When Jim Crow Violence Came to a Small New York Village 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z His memories of the Depression included the sound of sanctified gospel music, the scratch of 78-r.p.m. blues records, the sweat of dawn-to-dusk work and the sight of a black man lynched by a white mob. B. B. King, Defining Bluesman for Generations, Dies at 89 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z But in a memorial about lynching they read another way, as a forest of hanging bodies. A Memorial to the Lingering Horror of Lynching 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z The same week Moonlight opened, a sign commemorating Emmett Till, murdered for whistling at a white woman, was riddled with bullet holes – a 14-year-old still considered suspect, six decades after being lynched. Moonlight portrays black gay life in its joy, sadness and complexity 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z He turned down no unusual images, not even gruesome lynching scenes and cruel caricatures. Antiques: Jimi Hendrix?s Death Is Recalled at Museums 2010-08-19T21:44:00Z There was even a protest song about lynching, the jazz-infused "Strange Fruit." New generation of music central to protest 2011-11-13T20:16:03Z Among the other elected officials was a man I had known in my high school, who, as a minister, had garlanded a group of men accused of lynching a Muslim man. How Perumal Murugan Was Resurrected Through Writing 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Today, the consensus is that he was wrongly convicted, but at the time, amid rising antisemitic tensions across Georgia, Frank was kidnapped from prison in 1915 and lynched in Phagan's hometown. Ben Platt calls out neo-Nazi protesters "spreading antisemitic rhetoric" at Broadway preview 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z "So you felt for them, like you wanted to protect them from the human beings, the lynch mob that's going after them." 2010-02-11T20:19:00Z In a museum space a few blocks from the memorial are jars of soil collected from the site of lynchings throughout the South. Perspective | Competing monuments in the cradle of the Confederacy and the Civil Rights movement 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z The film also reproduces harrowing images from the scenes of public lynchings, many of which were held in broad daylight on the courthouse lawn. Always in Season: behind the painful film about lynching in America 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z Prior to that he had been taken into protective custody to prevent him being lynched. Matthew Woods 'joking' about April Jones on Facebook is sick, not criminal 2012-10-09T12:17:57Z The photographs of young black men are startling in their contrasts: a slave in chains, a professor in a suit; a body dangling from a lynch mob's rope, a musician with a violin. 'Through a Lens Darkly' tackles a photographic divide in America 2014-11-15T05:00:00Z Even now, to suggest this wildest of westerns is anything less than a masterpiece is to risk being lynched by its posse of admirers. How Deadwood went from eye-popping TV to a parade of old hams 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z Postcards depicting blacks as servile, lazy or criminal once circulated widely among white Americans, as did photographs taken of lynchings, not by outraged witnesses but by proud participants. ‘Through a Lens Darkly,’ on African-American Photography 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z Charlie Parker marches off the stage after an aria invoking the evils of segregation and lynching, then Addie Parker takes the stage to sing about her pride in her son’s success. ‘Charlie Parker’s Yardbird’ at Seattle Opera offers an unlikely mash-up of jazz and opera. How well does it work? 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z The mob beat the mayor into unconsciousness and lynched Brown. 'Red Summer': 1919, a year of epic violence against America's black citizens 2011-07-13T22:02:04Z The museum will display the original coffin of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old savagely killed in Mississippi in 1955; Ku Klux Klan hoods; and a piece of rope used in a lynching. The National Museum of African American History and Culture 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Each jar is labelled with the name of the victim, the date of death, and the county where the lynching took place. A Visit to Montgomery’s Legacy Museum 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z Rock joked—with even more gallows humor than the lynching bit—that the Academy’s “In Memoriam” segment should just feature the black kids who got shot on the way to the movies. Chris Rock’s Oscars monologue stuns: “When your grandmother’s swinging from a tree it’s really hard to care about best documentary foreign short” 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z Osiris embarks on this journey after he is lynched by White vigilantes. Review | Morowa Yejidé’s capacious imagination is on full display in ‘Creatures of Passage’ 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z A Twitter user described the scene as “more like a lynching” than Halloween décor. McDonald's apologizes for 'Sundae Bloody Sundae' Halloween promotion 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z So around me — I'm talking about the barber shop, my living room, wherever we were, the family gatherings — they were always talking about black men being lynched in the South, about the Ku Klux Klan. Henry Louis Gates Jr. on why Jay-Z is wrong about racism dying off 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z David Walker, his wife, and their four children were lynched in Hickman, Kentucky, in 1908 after Mr. Walker was accused of using inappropriate language with a white woman. A Memorial to the Lingering Horror of Lynching 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Wells, who was born a slave in 1862 in Mississippi, was a 30-year-old newspaper editor in Memphis, Tennessee, when she began her campaign lynching. Monument to activist, journalist Ida B. Wells unveiled 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z The piece begins with a historical look at the African-American struggle, including a depiction of lynchings, and then moves into full-on, high-energy hip-hop. Ailey troupe marks 60 years by looking back at its founder 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z Call it the collective memory of Michael Brown’s body lying in the street, and of the terrible yet familiar photographs of black victims of lynch mobs hanging from trees. Political Poetry Is Hot Again. The Poet Laureate Explores Why, and How. 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Or look further back, to the political plays of the Harlem Renaissance poet Georgia Douglas Johnson, who wrote fiercely about lynching? How to Birth a New American Theater 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z She fled the rural South in response to the terror created by lynchings that took place in and around her community. Lawyer and activist Bryan Stevenson on building racial justice: “This work is just beginning” 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z There are also electrocutions and suicides, lynchings and murders and the results of death-squad assassinations. Art review: Exposed at Tate Modern 2010-05-27T15:56:00Z In July, forty-nine writers, filmmakers, and artists wrote a public letter to Modi protesting mob lynchings; in October, they were threatened with a court case. How Perumal Murugan Was Resurrected Through Writing 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Little time is spent reflecting on the dangers that White’s Black informants faced in the cities he left behind after his lynching exposés. Antagonist, Activist, Operator, Survivor 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z But after their father is brutally lynched, the sisters run away to New Orleans and grow up living lives so different that when their futures intersect, tragedy ensues. Ten books to read in June 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z His treatments of religious themes like martyrdoms refer obliquely to the Black experience in Jim Crow America; the Kentucky-born artist was just a teenager when Emmett Till was lynched in 1955. ‘He Raises the Bar for Me’: 4 Artists on the Influence of Bob Thompson 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Valdez wanted to call attention to the thousands of Mexicans who scholars estimate were lynched in America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. When the Painting Is Provocative but the Museum Is Cautious 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Within hours, now Democratic presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Cory Booker — both African-American — compared the attack to an “attempted modern-day lynching.” Smollett story shows thin line between news and social media 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z Federal troops did little to stop lynchings and murders on a smaller scale, by the Ku Klux Klan, for example. ‘A Massacre in Memphis’: a day of shame in the River City 2014-01-08T21:54:41Z A map upstage shows the locations of the lynchings in the United States so far that year. Theater Review: ‘Dr. Du Bois and Miss Ovington,’ From the New Federal Theater 2014-01-31T22:37:49Z After Mr. Choate was brought to the jail, a cook there told him to pray because “the mob is coming to lynch you,” according to Mr. Minor’s book. The History of the Lynching Site Where Jason Aldean Filmed a Music Video 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z “There was burning of homes, lynchings. . . . People were literally driven off of the land.” Black families once lived off their southern farmland. Their descendants are struggling to hold onto it. 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z The narrative museum is coupled with the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, the nation's first to honor and document black people who were victims of racial terror lynchings. Lawyer and activist Bryan Stevenson on building racial justice: “This work is just beginning” 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z Before I visited, I didn’t know that St. Petersburg, Fla., near my hometown, was the site of two documented lynchings. Tips for taking children to the new Legacy Museum and lynching memorial in Alabama 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z The lynching had been witnessed by 2,000 people, yet nobody was held responsible for Lewis’s murder. When Jim Crow Violence Came to a Small New York Village 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z It’s a city that commemorates Confederate Memorial Day yet proudly welcomes thousands of international visitors to the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, the country’s first memorial dedicated to enslaved Black people and lynching victims. The statue of a doctor who experimented on enslaved women still stands in Alabama. But now there’s also a monument to his victims. 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z He runs through a potted history from the Middle Passage, taking in sharecropping, segregation, lynchings, the Ku Klux Klan, and the murder of Martin Luther King. Meet Chicago's Interrupters? 2011-08-06T22:48:57Z “Nightmare” described a lynching, and “A Wink at Justice” told the story of a shrewd judge who makes a Solomonic decision in the case of eight black men arrested for gambling. Harper Lee, Author of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ Dies at 89 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z He ended his speech by calling for an end to racial oppression and cultural appropriation, including a reference to the Billie Holiday song, “Strange Fruit,” a meditation on racism and lynchings. How Jesse Williams Stole BET Awards With Speech on Racism 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z The more Olive learnt about what had happened, the more she saw parallels with her earlier work on lynching, and the more she was convinced that she had to rethink her movie. Always in Season: behind the painful film about lynching in America 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z Named for Abel Meeropol’s haunting song — immortalized by Billie Holiday in 1939 — about the lynching of African Americans, the piece began as an act of mourning after the death of a friend. Review | Zoe Leonard speaks straight to your soul 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z In 2000, photographs of the lynching were displayed at a gallery in New York City, as part of an exhibition titled “Witness: Photographs of Lynchings from the Collection of James Allen.” A Story About Fred Trump and Woody Guthrie for the Midterm Elections 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z In reality, said Buirski, lynchings sometimes occurred under just the opposite circumstances, against black men who sought punishment for white abusers. The Rape of Recy Taylor: behind one of the year's most vital documentaries 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z In some American communities, lynching was a spectator sport. The Tulsa Massacre, race and America: I finally understand my personal stake in writing this history 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z The whippings, beatings, kickings and lynchings make for a difficult watch, and one sudden act of unprovoked violence had the audience gasping in dismay. Toronto 2013: Reporter's diary 2013-09-09T07:46:10Z MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Hundreds of people lined up in the rain to get a first look at a lynching memorial and museum that opened April 26 in Montgomery, Alabama. Lynching memorial and museum in Alabama draw crowds, tears 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z The memorial honors 4,000 victims of lynching and other types of racial violence. Tips for taking children to the new Legacy Museum and lynching memorial in Alabama 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z Bailey struggles to reconcile feelings of hatred for his father with a sense of how his father might have been affected by growing up in an era when lynchings were common. After His Brother Commits Murder, a Journalist Revisits Their Childhood 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z Elizabeth Lawrence was lynched in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1933 for reprimanding white children who threw rocks at her. A Memorial to the Lingering Horror of Lynching 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Their names are engraved on 800 steel rectangles, one for each U.S. county where lynchings occurred. Lynching memorial and museum in Montgomery open to public 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z In his church office, he keeps a poster-size photo of a lynched black man swinging at the end of a rope. Pastor’s fight against KKK becomes movie that may aid battle 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z It forced the North to consider its own endemic racism — lynching was not only found in Southern states — and caught the attention of the journalist Ida B. Wells. 14 New Books Coming in May 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z The Whitney Museum of American Art faced criticism when it featured in its 2017 Biennial exhibition a painting by the white artist Dana Schutz of the lynched black teenager Emmett Till, incurring protests. Floyd Case Forces Arts Groups to Enter the Fray 2020-06-07T04:00:00Z After she posted the allegations, Grimm said several of her bandmates accused her of “lynching” Ellis, who is black. 'My own form of justice': rape survivors and the risk of social media 'vigilantism' 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z “There was no refuge in success. A cousin of my mother’s, a student at Atlanta University, was lynched in 1931.” Darryl Pinckney’s Intimate Study of Black History 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Robert’s and Eli’s paths move together and apart, through enough plot for two or three novels: beatings, lynchings, arson, floods, narrow escapes, love affairs, robberies, rowdy couplings, greasy meals, hunting scenes, great friendships. Books of The Times: ‘Southern Cross the Dog,’ a Novel by Bill Cheng 2013-05-21T21:36:57Z It's an interactive update of the anti-lynching cartography made 100 years ago – although a full reconstruction of lynching terror remains impossible because of incomplete data and the veil of silence that persists around these murders. How Black cartographers put racism on the map of America 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z Polanski will not attend the ceremony, saying he fears a “public lynching”. Anti-Polanski protesters clash with police outside movie awards 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z This fascinating hybrid collection explores how current events reflect long-held prejudices about Mexicans and people of color, as evidenced by Mexican casta paintings and the lynching postcards of Walter H. Horne. Review | Five new books of poetry explore the American experience, for better or worse 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z They both know that the most hurtful online weaponry to wield against black women include images of apes, threats of lynching and a tossed-off N-word. The Rise of the Internet Fan Bully 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z He threatened to lynch a pesky opponent, and when Congress squelched an appointment he wanted to make, he shouted, “I’ll smash them!” Presidential Portraits: Staring History in the Face 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z Always in Season is controversial too in its central framing in which the death of Lennon is linked unquestioningly to America’s historical lynching. Always in Season: behind the painful film about lynching in America 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z But what is it about the Internet, and in particular social media, that enables ordinary people to turn into crazed lynch mobs so readily? Cecil the Lion, Walter Palmer and Online Shaming 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z To Judge Lawless, “the free negro” was “the enemy,” and he made sure that nobody was charged for McIntosh’s lynching. Abraham Lincoln Warned Us About Donald Trump 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z The Maury County sheriff, who was identified in news accounts at the time as Luther Wiley, said in a statement in the days after the lynching that he was honoring a promise. The History of the Lynching Site Where Jason Aldean Filmed a Music Video 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z Wright describes “every journalist, every editor, every person who puts a comment on an article pointing an uneducated finger” as “the lynch mob”. Amber Heard's friend explains why she called police on Johnny Depp 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z He was struck by Thomas’s passionate speech comparing the hearings to a “high-tech lynching for uppity blacks.” Does HBO’s ‘Confirmation’ favor Anita Hill? Kerry Washington and others say no way. 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z It is, he said, a “vestigial hangover” from the days when hangings and lynchings were public events. Last Meals on Death Row, a Peculiarly American Fascination 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z Kidd stumbles on the aftermath of a lynching and hears frequent reports of violence against Indians and Mexicans. ‘News of the World’ Review: Tom Hanks Does the Strong, Silent Type 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z Or maybe it will appear on a day that Harrison Ford or Steven Spielberg also recall youthful lynching fantasies. A peek at the diary of Liam Neeson’s agent: 'He's Started a Really Important Conversation' 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Shame on the online lynch mobs and on the show's editors for letting a jolly Shropshire lass's Bake Off dreams end in a witch-hunt. The Bake Off controversy: it's the editors who are 'sort of unacceptable' 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z Some feature monsters, lynchings and strange rituals; others show scenes of justice and retribution — although the anarchic atmosphere suggests sham justice. Review | Bob Thompson died young, but his colorful jazz- and Old Master-inspired paintings speak to the ages 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z The professor is outraged, however, when reading through Mama Z’s files on lynchings, copying down the names of the victims. New Southern Fiction By Percival Everett, Wiley Cash and Andrew Siegrist 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z There were three names, representing the lynchings in Breckinridge County that the Initiative has been able to document: A Visit to Montgomery’s Legacy Museum 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z Protesting the lynching of African Americans, the song helped kick off the civil rights movement. Review | A searing, all-star art show explores Black grief from the civil rights era to now 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z In 1835, a gang of students descended on the town’s African-American neighborhood in an attempt to lynch a white agent of the American Anti-Slavery Society who had come to address a secret meeting. Princeton Digs Deep Into Its Fraught Racial History 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z Responding to Linder’s point, Valdez wrote that images of black victims of lynching are indeed “shameful and should never be forgotten.” How to display a KKK painting? Very carefully 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Between 1880 and 1950, lynchings were committed in open defiance of the law, terrorizing a Black population that proceeded to escape to the ghettos of the North in massive numbers. Review | With his camera, Gordon Parks humanized the Black people others saw as simply criminals 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z He was kept alive by a white doctor until a crowd of ten thousand people could assemble to witness the spectacle of his lynching. A Visit to Montgomery’s Legacy Museum 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z Unlike the virtuous lawyer who saved an innocent black man from a lynch mob in “To Kill a Mockingbird,” the segregationist Atticus organized the white citizens council, figuratively speaking, in Boo Radley’s peaceful backyard. Harper Lee and Her Father, the Real Atticus Finch 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z “Charleston was no walk in the park, but Mississippi was something else entirely. They were still lynching people when I was there.” How the dense grids of artist Charles Gaines took the ego out of art 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z The people almost lynched us—just for slightly challenging their reunified Germany. Big Bang in Berlin 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z Perhaps the most surprising narrative in “Always in Season” deals with the concept of a lynching re-enactment. ‘Always in Season’ Review: Lynching Is Not Just Part of America’s Past 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z In the 1930s, jazz singer Billie Holiday railed against the practice of lynching in “Strange Fruit.” The soundtrack of the Sixties demanded respect, justice and equality 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z We are even asked to understand why someone like Walter Cunningham might join a lynch mob. To Kill a Mockingbird: too simple a moral tale? 2013-07-10T12:00:01Z The reference to corn pone or any other similarly American dish was quickly dropped, and "as American as apple pie" began to flourish, even being used to describe lynching by author Frank Shay. Why apple pie isn’t so American after all 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z Another piece from the show, titled "Hanging," paired a graphic photo of a white mob surrounding two lynched black people, their bodies hanging from tree limbs, with the image of a cow in a slaughterhouse. A Black Legacy, Wrapped Up in Fur 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z By the time of 1997’s Rosewood – a film about a real-life mass lynching in Florida that struggled to make a commercial or critical impact – the director began to blame the system. John Singleton: 'The crack epidemic gave me something to write about – but I had to survive it first' 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z We didn’t want to throw a lynching or dark alleyway scene because it didn’t happen to them. “It’s very topical”: “Hidden Figures” screenwriter on her breakthrough blockbuster 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z Tyson’s meticulous and absorbing retelling of the events leading up to the horrific lynching in 1955 includes an admission from Till’s accuser that some of her testimony was false. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z For kicks, Maria once disguised her voice and left him a voice mail message threatening to lynch him: “We’re gonna string you up by a dreadlock, man, and light you on fire.” ‘New People’ Riffs on Race and Love, With a Twist 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z As murder proliferates, lynch mobs, vigilantes and various self-appointed arbiters of informal justice leave a trail of corpses across Los Angeles. Frontier justice was brutal in Los Angeles, and 'Eternity Street' gets to the heart of the matter 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z But the war in Algeria was seeping into the streets and environs of Paris, and in October 1961 a demonstration had been suppressed by the police, who were accused of lynching some of the demonstrators. Peter Lennon obituary 2011-03-20T17:10:17Z In Newton, Sheriff Claude Screws, a virulent racist, lynched a black man, Bobby Hall, for the crime of owning a gun and hiring a lawyer to retrieve it when Screws arbitrarily took it away. A novel about police brutality in 1948 Atlanta that sounds eerily relevant today 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z What turns a group of jocular, Bible-fearing citizens into a lynch mob? Review: Puccini’s American Opera Needs a New American Vision 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Another tells the whole story in fourteen words: “When his wife was found in a well, Graham was lynched by a mob.” The Indispensable Guide to Early American Murder 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z They will see images of lynching and of a slave being whipped. Painful but crucial: Why you’ll see Emmett Till’s casket at the African American museum 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z “We want children and adults to see that the people who led the civil rights protests grew up in a time of lynching, and that hope came from this dark chapter,” Sanneh said. Tips for taking children to the new Legacy Museum and lynching memorial in Alabama 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z However, the video is still set at a Tennessee courthouse that was the site of a lynching, and it includes other clips of criminal activity and clashes between protesters and the police. Protest Scene Removed From Jason Aldean ‘Try That in a Small Town’ Video 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z “I equate it with lynching photography,” she said. Chicago video tests newsroom handling of graphic footage 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z And alongside of that, the work Bryan Stevenson is doing with the legacy of slavery and lynching in America. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: The Ways We Inherit Historical Traumas 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z But also here are intimations of horror: slaves’ cabins, 19th-century photographs of slaves’ backs scarred by flogging, the open pants of lynching victims. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z Unlike in the Caravaggio, here that violence never resolves into beauty, and its actual-scale lynching grows only more disturbing the longer you look. High Drama, High Contrast: Finding the Baroque in Contemporary Art 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z The white working class built unions and raised children and fought wars—and lynched black people and supported Joe McCarthy. Why Trump Is Different—and Must Be Repelled 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Come closer, and you see that images of French aristocrats have been replaced by images of black nuns and goddesses, and well-dressed white lynching victims hang from trees. Worth the Ride: 5 Surprising Exhibition Spaces in Upstate New York 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z Instead, the filmmakers focus on the process of crossing a river or defanging a lynch mob — or maneuvering inside a vein-tightening bonnet. 'Meek's Cutoff': Wagon-train tale blazes an arty trail through Oregon 2011-05-05T23:56:04Z Her adventures reached the small-screen in the CBS program "Death Valley Days," in which she was portrayed saving a man from a lynch mob in an episode called "The fastest nun in the West." Sainthood possible for New Mexico nun who faced down Billy the Kid 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z For the other, “Strange Fruit,” she was joined by an opera singer acting as a second voice and commentator, whose cries turned feral as this song about a lynching gathered force. Vivian Reed Turns Up the Intensity at Below 54 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z “I did say to Bill, ‘There are places in this country would probably lynch you if you did this,’” Mr. Chapin said. In This ‘Oklahoma!,’ She Loves Her and He Loves Him 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z Warren Powell, fourteen, was lynched in East Point, Georgia, in 1889, for “frightening” a white girl. A Visit to Montgomery’s Legacy Museum 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z Speaking this week to FarrahGray.com, the younger Cosby found a sympathetic venue, responding to observations like, “Some would describe the attack on your uncle as a modern day media lynching.” Cosby critics aren’t “casting stones” 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z The report highlights the erasure of thousands of community-sanctioned murders from both our landscape and our collective memory and notes that many lynchings, sometimes with thousands of witnesses, have been both ignored and buried. Lynching epidemic’s reign of terror: A reminder that white lives matter — and black lives do not 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z One powerful panel, showing a figure huddled and grieving beneath a skeletal tree from which an empty noose hangs, reads in its entirety: “There were lynchings.” SAM hosts rare reunion of Jacob Lawrence’s ‘Migration Series’ 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z We wrote about how campaign rhetoric stokes the passions of keyboard racists targeting activists and leftist writers with Auschwitz images and twisted lynching fantasies. An open letter to the “Ivanka voters” I grew up with: I hope you get what you want 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z A Black person “does not need to transgress to experience the violence of lynchings, of slavery, of incarceration.” New in Paperback: ‘Chasing Chopin’ and ‘V2’ 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z Aside from the slavery ship and a gruesome look at lynching, most of the museum was hopeful and expansive. Place 19 of 52: A Celebration of African-American Culture in Baltimore 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Black genius and black suffering inspired Mary Church Terrell, as she crisscrossed the country, standing before crowds to decry lynching and demand women’s suffrage. Ida, Maya, Rosa, Harriet: The Power in Our Names 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Although Graham was lynched before he could be brought to trial, Cora Lee was charged as an accessory to the murder. Diamond Doris, the Bourbon King and Other Stars of True Crime 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z The anti-racist song, which has been performed by the likes of Billie Holiday and Nina Simone, protests against the lynching of African Americans in the South in the early 20th century. British singers Church, Ferguson snub Trump inauguration 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z Franck Riester’s comments came hours after Polanski, 87, said he would not attend Friday’s awards ceremony for fear of being subject to a “public lynching” by feminists. French minister enters Césars row over Roman Polanski nominations 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z But Williams’ cinematic choice personalizes Will’s pain and the pain of lynching victims generally. HBO's "Watchmen" trolls history and heroic whiteness in the most extraordinary episode yet 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z She dodged for a moment and then pointed out what she saw as one of the most egregious elements of the entire affair: Thomas’s deployment of the language of lynching to discredit her claims. What Shielded Bill Cosby? 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z It includes a well-known photograph of a lynching, from which Ms. Rankine has removed the hanging black bodies, highlighting the excited faces of the white mob. Claudia Rankine on ‘Citizen’ and Racial Politics 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z Puccini described the evening as a “lynching” and withdrew the work, vowing never again to perform at La Scala. Puccini’s ‘Madama Butterfly’ Returns to the Scene of a Disastrous Opening 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z Once, photographs of lynchings were widely shared for the incitement and entertainment of White consumers. Perspective | In a year of Black Death, the movies showed us Black Life 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z While the re-enactment material emphasizes how the specter of lynchings reverberates in the 21st century, so too — much more directly — does the case of Lacy, which deserved a movie of its own. ‘Always in Season’ Review: Lynching Is Not Just Part of America’s Past 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z By situating their story in the Midwest, the writers can detach their narrative from histories of lynching and mob violence, which would only complicate the simple motivations they’ve assigned to their villain. Octavia Spencer’s Horror Movie, “Ma,” Is a Misfire Fit for the Moment 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z The unmarked slave cemetery on the property, overlooked by family members during annual summer visits, begins to haunt them after a photo album containing pictures and postcards of lynchings is discovered. 'Appropriate' unearths ugly family dynamics in epic dramatic fashion 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z In no other post-slavery society did lynching emerge as a festive public ritual. Letters to the Editor 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z In Childress’ subversion of a standard backstage comedy, a crew of actors rehearses a new Broadway drama about the lynching of a young black man in the South. ‘Trouble in Mind’: A timely look at prejudice, principle 2013-07-24T23:15:10Z Wells crusade was prompted by the 1892 lynching of a man whose first child was her godchild. Monument to activist, journalist Ida B. Wells unveiled 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z And yet, as they hove – hoove? – into focus, most of these things just said: It’s good and important to talk about our sustained attempted lynching sprees. A peek at the diary of Liam Neeson’s agent: 'He's Started a Really Important Conversation' 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z It is almost certainly the last word that many black men from Hunter's own hometown of Atlanta, Georgia, heard before they were lynched. Why was Reginald D Hunter ever booked for the PFA awards dinner? 2013-04-30T17:26:49Z Then the barbarities of the slave trade, the Middle Passage and cradle-to-grave bondage, were followed by another century of lynching, Jim Crow segregation, disenfranchisement and officially sanctioned forms of violence. Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Literary Freedom as an Essential Human Right 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z Thompson was in love with Plenda, but such interracial relationships remained fraught, so you can imagine why images of black monsters and lynchings made it into his work. Review | Bob Thompson died young, but his colorful jazz- and Old Master-inspired paintings speak to the ages 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z As I recently discussed with Professor Courtney Baker, the attacks by police, street vigilantes, and other agents of the state on black Americans is a contemporary version of lynching culture in the digital age. A modern day lynching: Why I will not watch the video of Alton Sterling being killed by Baton Rouge police 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z But given a Yiddish nickname of iffy accuracy, he still prefers Yiddish a lot more than the lynching talk he heard growing up in Omaha. Review: ‘The Yid,’ Paul Goldberg’s First Novel, Taunts Stalin 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Making these possible lynchings more chilling is the fact that the oldest dates to 1986 — the other three took place in this century, most recently in 2005 in upstate New York. ArtsBeat: Channel Surfing: 'The Injustice Files: At the End of a Rope' 2012-02-21T19:02:23Z I’m thinking of the bulky box cameras that people once used to photograph lynchings in the nineteen-twenties and thirties. Bringing Guantánamo to Park Avenue 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z A recent, very long round was set off by “Open Casket,” a painting by Dana Schutz, which portrayed, in an abstract swirl, the body of Emmett Till, the black teenager tortured and lynched in 1955. ‘Barracoon’ and ‘Slave Old Man’ Approach the Trauma of Slavery With Care and Kinship 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z In one sentence he refers to the role mobs play in lynchings and in the very next he is discussing how ovulating women tend to wear more makeup and jewelry at a singles bar. Books of The Times: Weak-Kneed Willpower Faces Temptation?s Lure 2010-12-30T21:50:25Z Turning on the TV, he finds “Johnny Guitar”: “an old meatball of cross-starred love, gunplay, hate and lynching.” His Roman Holiday Lasted a Lifetime 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z The strange fruit were the hanging bodies of the lynched protesters. Peter Lennon obituary 2011-03-20T17:10:17Z Mr. Thomas struck back by declaring that he was being subjected to a “high-tech lynching.” HBO’s ‘Confirmation’ Revisits Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas and Drama in the Senate 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z “We broke the story that Jim Crow was back but now he was Dr. James Crow, cyber analyst, using computers to conduct a lynching by laptop,” Palast told Salon, almost 16 years later. “There’s no such thing as a victimless billionaire”: Inside the shadowy voter fraud conspiracy that’s “still in progress” 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z “I could not watch another lynching,” he said. The Trauma of Violent News on the Internet 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z Before the group created the powerful new memorial to the victims of lynching and racial terror that opened this month , they erected small signs around town to recall the city’s slave past. Perspective | Competing monuments in the cradle of the Confederacy and the Civil Rights movement 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z The 4 Little Indians imagine that their moral superiority and clever theatricality will somehow shame and cleanse the townspeople who witness the faux lynching. The most unsettling, must-read novel this year: ‘Welcome to Braggsville’ 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Fortunately, Delvin’s employer is a master at placating local town leaders with happy pictures of “antic burlesque,” while secretly displaying photographs of lynchings for their real patrons. Why write a novel about a race that’s not your own? The case of ‘Ginny Gall’ 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z The noose recalled this country’s devastating history of lynching, of racial terror and the extrajudicial murder of African Americans. Perspective | Can a noose be art? There’s one hanging from a porch in Washington that’s here to challenge your assumptions. 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z The 1930 work, which Guston drew when he was 17 years old, depicts a lynching — or what Mr. Hancock calls in his essay the “aftermath of a successful Klan business meeting.” Delay of Philip Guston Retrospective Divides the Art World 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z A brief opening sums up the “end” of the Sawyers, the lynch mob that rightfully burnt them all to a Texas barbecue crisp. ‘Texas Chainsaw 3D’ doesn’t leave out the ‘massacre’ 2013-01-04T17:12:08Z During his stormy trial there are threats of lynching, as well as intimations that the white woman had been the sexual aggressor. Echoes of Willie McGee?s Execution, on NPR 2010-05-05T23:20:00Z You wrote a book about a book the legacy of lynchings in America that was inspired in part by South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund on race relations in the Trump era 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z “Most of my staff have never seen a lynching, have you?” 'Masters of Sex' Recap: Can Any Relationship Last? 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z Jackson’s family called the documentary and news coverage of the accusations a “public lynching” and said he was “100 percent innocent.” 'Simpsons' producer pulls episode featuring Michael Jackson 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z Valdez wanted to call attention to the thousands of Mexicans who scholars estimate were lynched in America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. How to display a KKK painting? Very carefully 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Expect unvarnished discussions and representations of 1930s racism, including a brutal lynching scene. Black history movies that tackle racism 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z Even more jarring than the names on the wall are the reasons some of the dead were lynched. For Roy Wood Jr., Alabama Is Painful History, New Hope and Home 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z But the 74-year-old actress said she did not like the “media lynching” and “climate of censorship” she said was unleashed by the #metoo campaign, known in France as #balancetonporc or “rat out your abuser”. France's Deneuve apologizes to sex assault victims, stands by letter 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z That her severe grandfather, who ordered her not to socialize with the white kids at her all-white private school, was nearly killed in a lynching. ‘Self Portrait’: Family hopes and history on canvas As the Guardian reported in October 2014, bringing the story to nationwide attention for the first time, Lacy began to pose a terrible question: had her son been the victim of a modern-day lynching? Always in Season: behind the painful film about lynching in America 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z In December civil rights groups, including the Austin N.A.A.C.P., unveiled a plaque in East Austin memorializing three African-Americans who were lynched in the area in 1894. When the Painting Is Provocative but the Museum Is Cautious 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z The programming will examine the whole story of the arrival of Latinos in what would become the United States, discrimination, lynching, stereotypes and the ongoing struggle for inclusion. Smithsonian Names First Director of Museum of the American Latino 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z Like Trump supporters, or drunken frat boys looking for a fight, or lynch mobs, or a sizeable chunk of the population of fundamentalist Islamic states. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 7: This Place is Dangerous 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z Earlier this month, two members of the university’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter were expelled after they were caught on video singing a song that referenced lynching and used racial slurs. Will Ferrell Says Oklahoma Incident an 'Argument for Getting Rid of' Frats 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z Gary Wills, the New York Review of Books, 1995 : Whatever one thinks of the lynching trope, it worked. ‘It was just awful’: The Clarence Thomas hearings, in the words of those who were there 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Black Mississippians reminded of their state’s history of lynchings. Why Dan Crenshaw got a public apology and others didn’t. (Hint: It’s about power, people.) 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Along the road they’re traveling, grimly called “The Freedom Trail,” the trees are hung with lynched corpses. Review: ‘The Underground Railroad’ Weaves an Epic Vision 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z Popular justice in Los Angeles had evolved to the point that both English- and Spanish-speaking locals believed "lynch law should be employed in the service of racial justice," Faragher writes. Frontier justice was brutal in Los Angeles, and 'Eternity Street' gets to the heart of the matter 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z Racist white men burned crosses and performed lynchings, but their rationale was often tied up in a twisted logic related to protecting the purity of white women. Perspective | The point we’re missing about ‘BBQ Becky’ and her sisters 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z The singer’s family last month called the documentary and news coverage of the accusations in it a “public lynching” and said Jackson was “100 percent innocent.” Jackson estate says HBO film violates non-disparagement contract:... 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Billie Holiday, whose song Strange Fruit exposed racist lynchings in the American south, was also banned from the airwaves. Kraftwerk denied China visa over 1999 Free Tibet concert 2013-03-29T18:54:14Z In Letohatchee, less than an hour south of Montgomery, a sign placed in a local church yard notes that a black man was lynched nearby in 1900. Perspective | Competing monuments in the cradle of the Confederacy and the Civil Rights movement 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z People argued that lynching was a superior, cheaper form of law enforcement. Frontier justice was brutal in Los Angeles, and 'Eternity Street' gets to the heart of the matter 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z Such a point is made in his mellifluous rendition of "Delta Getaway" about a man fleeing a lynch mob to Chicago. From Syria to Detroit, we are all migrants, sings bluesman Bibb 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z But, these days, the streets are not often peaceful: the news is afire with stories of Muslims being lynched for supposedly carrying beef. The Delhi Walla’s Visions of a Possibly Vanishing India 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z They can also discuss the fact that some children were victims of racial violence, while others were among the crowds at public lynchings. Tips for taking children to the new Legacy Museum and lynching memorial in Alabama 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z Thomas said the history of lynching is relatively recent but often is "shoved under the rug." Leading black artists featured at Corcoran Gallery 2011-09-30T19:27:09Z It borrows from our traumatized cultural memory and experience — slavery, lynching and Jim Crow abuses of the past; police brutality that continues into the present — and thus reproduces real pain. My Screens Are Filled With Black Death, but I Won’t Look Away 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z In a foreword, University of Mary Washington history professor Claudine Ferrell writes that Thompson’s murder was one of many like it — lynchings peaked in the 1890s at about 200 a year. Perspective | A black man was lynched in 1932. An author wants the community to finally deal with it. 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z The 1955 lynching of Till, and the acquittal of his killers, shocked people of conscience, terrified African Americans and fueled the emotions that led to bus boycotts, lunch-counter sit-ins and the Freedom Rides. Can a thorough, thoughtful museum speak to a new racist age? 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z The mural is based on one of many photographs the artist has tracked down of lynchings of Latinos, Native Americans and Chinese immigrant men in California in the early 20th century. Art Once Shunned, Now Celebrated in ‘Queer Archaeology; Queer Abstraction’ 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z “Strange Fruit,” the elegiac ode to black victims of lynching made famous by Billie Holiday. Art Review: Sanford Biggers?s Art in a Two-Borough Exhibition 2011-10-20T20:30:09Z Each is labelled with the name of the victim, the date of death, and the county where the lynching took place. A Visit to Montgomery’s Legacy Museum 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z It's followed by right-wing veterans threatening to lynch him before being drawn into joining him in a straight version of the song. Gainsbourg 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z Linda Tripp reappeared on Capitol Hill, where she styled herself as a brave truth teller who faced a “high-tech lynching” for blowing the whistle. Paula Jones, Reconsidered 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z The family called it a “public lynching” of a man not around to defend himself, and was also critical of director Dan Reed’s decision not to include pro-Jackson voices. Threat of lawsuits can stymie, but also help documentarians 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z In 2013, he started using this book, along with his birth certificate, found photos of lynchings and other personally resonant documents, as grounds for minimal paintings. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z Within 24-hours of the photo going viral, Stone had found herself in the middle of the equivalent to a public lynching. Cecil the Lion, Walter Palmer and Online Shaming 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z I did a graduate minor in African-American studies, and I took this really awesome course taught by Sundiata Cha-Jua, on lynching studies. The Choreographer Angie Pittman’s Quiet Storm 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z Visitors to the hilltop site will initially see columns representing the 800 counties throughout the country where lynchings occurred. 36 Hours in Montgomery, Ala. 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z At the time, a Black man couldn't have complained about the plight of his industry changing because many Black people were not a part of any industry — they were just trying to not be lynched. Wendell Pierce on bringing a Black Willy Loman to life, making "Death of a Salesman" relevant today 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z The forced exile of Navajos, lynchings in Alabama, income inequities and the long fight for same-sex marriage are some of the realities that trouble Blanco, whose parents fled Cuba and eventually settled in Miami. Review | ‘How to Love a Country’ and other best poetry collections to read this month 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z “We should be thinking about ‘Space Is the Place,’ but we’re still thinking about, ‘Oh, am I going to get lynched? Oh, am I getting respect? Oh, should I do work and not get paid?’ William Hooker and Oscar Micheaux, visionaries across eras and art forms 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Burberry was widely criticized for evoking racial terror via lynching, as well as suicide. Prada, Gucci and now Burberry: Are brands under fire for offensive designs doing it on purpose? 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z Rootstock Republic, a collective of string players of color, will also appear, performing a remix of the famous Billie Holiday number “Strange Fruit,” a song that presents a compelling portrayal of black lynchings. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z With Battle’s encouragement, these and other artists have taken risks both stylistic and thematic — addressing gun violence, the impact of the prison system on Black families, lynchings, massacres. Robert Battle on Running Ailey: ‘This Is My Choreography Now’ 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z “Watching my people get murdered and lynched day after day pushed me to a heavy place in my heart!” Music industry hits pause to reflect as U.S. protests rage 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z Ida B. Wells, a Black woman journalist who was born into slavery, documented the horrifying practice of Black lynchings in the late 1890s. The dangerous spectacle of racist violence viral videos: Who are those images for? 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z His fellow Vietnamese Houstonians eviscerated him with criticism, death threats, lynching threats even. Living with the legacy of my Trump-voting Vietnamese relatives 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z "Superman went after lynch mobs and war profiteers in his first adventure in 1938, so `Archer & Armstrong' is much in the same vein." Secretive, methodical, the so-called 'One Percent' 2012-06-28T06:47:09Z A conversation about whether their boys are too young to learn the truth about racist savagery and lynching echoes recent ill-conceived efforts by news organizations to raise that question in their coverage. Thanks to its stars, "Passing" is a masterpiece of subtle expression, rendered in black and white 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Later, the man in the red trunks flicks lighted matches at immobile women as Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit,” a song about lynchings, plays. Review: Pina Bausch’s ‘On the Mountain’ in Paris 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z The son is really a Martian, a shapechanger who reflects the desires of others; and the story spirals down into tragedy, with the equivalent of a mob lynching at the end. Margaret Atwood on Ray Bradbury: the tale-teller who tapped into the gothic core of America 2012-06-08T21:55:20Z Both Thomas and Kavanaugh denied the women’s statements, and Thomas called the committee proceedings “a high-tech lynching for uppity Blacks.” Perspective | Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford have a lot to talk about. And now, they’re letting us listen. 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z The EJI has developed lesson plans about lynching for high schoolers, and more lesson plans are being developed for other ages. Tips for taking children to the new Legacy Museum and lynching memorial in Alabama 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z “No persons had committed a crime, because the lynching had been an expression of the community’s will.” When Jim Crow Violence Came to a Small New York Village 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z The thing that was most interesting to me was that it didn’t have the weighted feeling of the threat of lynching or the danger you encountered on the road. 'A practical solution to a horrific problem': When even Los Angeles needed havens for black drivers 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z Incensed by their success and competition, white Americans laid waste to entire communities, salting the earth with lynchings, tax sales, predatory land speculation and disenfranchisement. Buying Black, Rebooted 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z Voices of the past are heard as if coming out of thin air, chanting in overlapping chorus: stories of a Pomo girl and a Greek immigrant, that 1871 Chinatown lynching and segregated medicine. Review: An Opera Erases and Rewrites the American Myth 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z Called “In The Hood,” it’s both a one-liner and full of rage, veering from how people romanticized the ghetto to commenting on black lynchings. When we all smelled like teen spirit 2013-04-21T19:00:00Z The “darkest secret” in American history turns out to be lynching, which, while certainly dark, could be termed a secret only by the most willfully oblivious readers of our nation’s past. Antagonist, Activist, Operator, Survivor 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z Miners down on their luck force themselves on women, lynch for sport and spend one long, frightening Fourth of July hunting as many people of color as possible. Review: John Adams’s Newest Opera Returns to the Gold Mines 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Working Group of Experts stated, “Contemporary police killings and the trauma that they create are reminiscent of the past racial terror of lynching.” If Trump and Clinton want to reach voters in the next debate, they need to talk about police brutality 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z When she was older, she learned that he had witnessed the lynching of two of his neighbors. Toni Morrison on Her Last Novel and the Voices of Her Characters 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z He said it looked “more like a lynching.” Massachusetts McDonald's apologizes after displaying 'insensitive' Halloween decoration 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z New projects, including the nation’s first monument to lynching, advance the equal-rights cause and make Montgomery a vital stop on any history tour of the United States. 36 Hours in Montgomery, Ala. 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Clarence Thomas declaring that he was figuratively being lynched was a masterpiece of cynicism, and it came in the wake of his own denunciations of laziness and welfare dependence among impoverished black people. What Shielded Bill Cosby? 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z Lee Anderson, the novel’s hero, is a light-skinned black man who leaves home after his brother is lynched for being seen with a white woman. Whimsy and War: Boris Vian’s Two Minds 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z George Clooney and co stumble into a Klan lynching that’s choreographed like a Busby Berkeley number in O Brother Where Art Thou? From Birth of a Nation to BlacKkKlansman: Hollywood’s complex relationship with the KKK 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z As one of the last reported lynchings in the United States, Michael's death gained national attention, which only increased the pressure being put on the Mobile Police Department to find the killers. 10 facts about Beulah Mae Donald, the woman who took down the KKK 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z Larson offers some possible reasons: The burden of the Depression; the Roosevelt administration's fear of being charged with hypocrisy, given America's treatment of its black citizens in an era of lynching and disenfranchisement. 'In the Garden of Beasts': Erik Larson plumbs terror in Nazi Germany 2011-05-05T20:00:16Z Historically, accounts of the lynching of African-Americans appeared in regional newspapers but seldom made their way into the North-based mainstream press. A Memorial to the Lingering Horror of Lynching 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z The title for that earlier book suggested how typical it was for lynch mobs to cultivate a pointed anonymity. When Jim Crow Violence Came to a Small New York Village 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z It’s a watercolor depiction of a road paved with the Stars and Stripes, with lynched figures hanging from the trees along its shoulder. ‘Truth B Told’ in all kinds of ways by region’s black artists in Onyx show 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z He sees a connection between the gleeful crowds at Trump’s rallies, cheering on calls to violence, with the white people grinning beside mutilated Black victims in lynching photos. New Books Update Our Thinking About Cruelty 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z But in the year 2019, who over the age of 20 doesn't immediately recognize the painful, racist imagery of blackface and lynching? Prada, Gucci and now Burberry: Are brands under fire for offensive designs doing it on purpose? 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z At the Legacy Museum, in Montgomery, Mason jars display soil from lynching sites. A Visit to Montgomery’s Legacy Museum 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z It focused on lynching, which was then a scourge. A new mission for Amnesty International: Bringing human rights home Just as well – some of the descriptions of slaves being tortured, burned and lynched are unbearable. Family Album by Penelope Lively and The Long Song by Andrea Levy 2010-04-09T23:06:00Z President of New York Police Union Patrick J. lynch said in a statement that Tarantino was a “cop-hater” who “makes a living glorifying crime and violence.” Quentin Tarantino: 'I'm Not a Cop Hater' 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z And at a time when proceedings were crude and hangings public, the difference between a legal execution and a lynching could appear rather fine. Frontier justice was brutal in Los Angeles, and 'Eternity Street' gets to the heart of the matter 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z In recent years, he has expanded its role to include research into the criminal justice system and the history of lynching. Review | A powerful memorial in Montgomery remembers the victims of lynching 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z It's a little bizarre that it's 2018 and this is the first time we've had a site dedicated to the horrors of racial terrorism in America evinced by lynching. Lawyer and activist Bryan Stevenson on building racial justice: “This work is just beginning” 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z In this form of guerrilla cinema, the performer courts real danger that, in its extreme form, might stop just short of actual lynching. The Dictator ? review 2012-05-19T23:08:03Z One plays a 1959 clip of Billie Holiday singing “Strange Fruit,” the chilling dirge about racial lynching that she made famous. Art Meets Its Soundtrack Deep in ‘The Dirty South’ 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z In Montgomery, Ala., the first capital of the Confederacy, the nonprofit group Equal Justice Initiative has purchased six acres of land on which it is building a memorial to honor the victims of lynching. In the South and North, New (and Vital) Civil Rights Trails 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z By 1882 the shade trees were stout enough to lynch James Sullivan and William Howard from a stanchion prepared between two of the maples. The dark day of mob rule and lynching as sport in Seattle 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z I have seen those broken black bodies portrayed on lynching postcards as white men, women, boys, and girls stand proudly nearby, confident and without any shame after they vanquished the black body from their midst. A modern day lynching: Why I will not watch the video of Alton Sterling being killed by Baton Rouge police 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Mostly, though, lynching met with public silence, which lasted a long time. A Memorial to the Lingering Horror of Lynching 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z “Activists are already threatening me with a public lynching,” Polanski said in a statement. Polanski win at Cesars would send wrong message in #MeToo era: minister 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z Dinning was spirited away by a civic-minded sheriff determined to prevent a lynching. Puncturing the Allure of Robert E. Lee, and Other Civil War-Era Histories 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z The public lynching of George Floyd at the hands of law enforcement is horrific and senseless. White allies, stop asking me if I'm OK. Black people are not OK 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z Almost a century after the civil war, African Americans were being lynched, denied basic human rights, not allowed to register for the vote in most southern states, and discriminated against in the north. 1963: from the Stones to Dr Strangelove, a year of social and cultural upheaval 2013-05-07T05:00:01Z The lynchings of Muslims and student protests became a stubborn fact at the edge of the state-approved frame. Arundhati Roy — beloved for her fiction, derided for her politics — won’t be silenced 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z The Lynched The names of more than 2,200 people known to have been lynched between 1882 and 1930 line the walls of this gallery. The National Museum of African American History and Culture 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Tribute is also paid to the scores of unnamed victims of lynchings. For Roy Wood Jr., Alabama Is Painful History, New Hope and Home 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z I felt slightly sick, watching people laugh at the words about lynching reporters — and, in some cases, buy the shirt as a souvenir. Perspective | If Trump doesn’t condone violence against journalists, he should stop inspiring it 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Many of them fled to the North and West just to create an environment where they weren’t going to be threatened and menaced with lawless lynching on any given day. The author of ‘Just Mercy’ says we’ve made talking about race political — and that has to change 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z A sobering experience: stops include historical lynching sites, the city’s former slave market and the old Greyhound Bus Station where 21 young Freedom Riders were viciously beaten by an angry mob in 1961. The statue of a doctor who experimented on enslaved women still stands in Alabama. But now there’s also a monument to his victims. 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z Were two British intelligence officers kidnapped, tortured and lynched by the Irgun? Peter Kosminsky: Britain's humiliation in Palestine 2011-01-23T00:03:05Z And she thanked Twitter for “jumping into action” on the situation. Included among the messages aimed at her was a photo of her head photoshopped onto the body of lynching victim. Normani Kordei’s Twitter abuse: The troll problem keeps getting worse, especially for women and people of color 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z There was a voice-over of Clarence Thomas talking about being a victim of “high-tech lynching,” and the audience collectively gasped because Trump’s own lynching comment was trending. He Took Her Parts in ‘Fires in the Mirror.’ All 29 of Them. 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z The internet did not create scapegoating, feuds and cliques, and virtual lynchings are nowhere near as fatal as the real-life kind. How novels came to terms with the internet 2011-01-15T00:06:06Z But the 74-year-old actress said she did not like the “media lynching” and “climate of censorship” she said was unleashed by the #metoo campaign, known in France as #balancetonporc or “rat out your abuser”. France's Deneuve apologizes to sex assault victims, stands by letter 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z Both senators described the attack in the very same way on social media: “a modern-day lynching.” Perspective | Cory Booker and Kamala Harris wade into pop culture — and experience the age-old drawbacks 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Emmett Till, whose 1955 lynching in Mississippi spurred black people into action more than 60 years ago, is a spirit guide in the play, which also recalls the deaths of other black men. A new play opening in Philadelphia is exploring the final moments of the life of Trayvon Martin 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z He was shuttled between jails to protect him from the prospect of a lynch mob, but was found and murdered, and his body violently mutilated before a mob of thousands. ‘Always in Season’ Review: Lynching Is Not Just Part of America’s Past 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Kelly’s camp responds: “We will vigorously resist this attempted public lynching of a black man who has made extraordinary contributions to our culture.” Timeline of R. Kelly’s life, lurid rumor to criminal charges 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z At the height of white supremacist lynchings targeting Black people, it was white women's supposed fear of "dangerous" Black men that frequently drove lynch mobs to kill Black men. New horror flick “Karen” already causing backlash as a “Jordan Peele-knockoff” 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z “Some of us … mark the beginning of the ‘modern civil rights movement’ with the lynching of Emmett Till,” Dr. McLemore told me. The Freedom Trail in Mississippi Is a Chronicle of Outrage and Courage 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z But also it’s fascinating that, as with lynchings, we know who the victims are but we don’t know who the perpetrators are; their identities have been suppressed to this day. ‘Our history has been so consciously suppressed,’ says historian John Whittington Franklin on America’s relationship with Black history 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z We are not talking about murder arising from knife crime, gang warfare, lynching bankers or crimes of cruelty and passion – this is the process of what America calls law. Injustice: Life and Death in the Courtrooms of America – review 2012-07-07T23:05:09Z In 1893 and 1894, she traveled to England on a speaking tour, attending public meetings and forums to showcase what lynchings looked like in the American South. The dangerous spectacle of racist violence viral videos: Who are those images for? 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z So, Black people took to the streets, Black men, to try and counter and stop him from being killed, stop him from being lynched. "There was a lot of envy at Black success": Director Dawn Porter on new Tulsa Massacre documentary 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z Because an immigration officer once told me that Americans lynch Canadians. My new US citizenship: It's complicated 2023-07-29T04:00:00Z Four weeks before I read this book, I watched a white police officer lynch a Black man with his knee. The Injustice Deep Within the Justice System 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z The film winds from this early postbellum era through the extrajudicial lynchings of blacks in the early 20th century, through resistance to the civil rights movement and finally the war on drugs. Ava DuVernay: 'The black body is being used for profit and politics' 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z Now he’s been unmasked and cornered by a lynch mob of fellow cadets; he’s lost his edge but not his edginess. Requiem for Mr. Tough Guy 2012-02-06T17:01:31Z Each suspended steel monument represents one of the hundreds of American counties in which lynchings took place, and is inscribed with as many of the known names of the victims from that locality. Review | A powerful memorial in Montgomery remembers the victims of lynching 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z Along the way we get glimpses of the 20th-century hypocrisies that allowed South African apartheid murders, racist wars, American lynchings and other Ku Klux Klan scare tactics. ‘Lee Daniels’ The Butler’: One man’s walk through racial history 2013-08-15T19:23:10Z A public outcry over whether Frank was actually guilty prompted the Georgia governor to commute Frank’s death sentence, at which point Frank was lynched by a mob. Ben Platt on the Unfortunate Timeliness of His ‘Parade’ Revival 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z Far from a lawless struggle over scarce resources, the lynching was a sign of continuing order. Finding peace in post-disaster Haiti 2013-05-26T14:00:00Z A lynching, in other words, meant not to serve racism but to fight it. Frontier justice was brutal in Los Angeles, and 'Eternity Street' gets to the heart of the matter 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z African-Americans have cultivated an immune response to such matters, which is part of why the idea that this scandal is a digital lynching has gained traction in some sectors of black America. What Shielded Bill Cosby? 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z “In the wink of a cat’s eye,” a clever, incredibly offensive, potentially disastrous plan is born: D’aron and his three friends will travel back to his hometown and stage a “performative intervention”: a mock lynching. The most unsettling, must-read novel this year: ‘Welcome to Braggsville’ 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Their names, where known, are engraved on 800 dark, rectangular steel columns, one for each U.S. county where lynchings occurred. Lynching memorial and museum in Alabama draw crowds, tears 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z "Many students like me were told that the lynching of Black Americans was tragic but not that these public murders were commonplace and often lauded by local papers and law enforcement," Hanks wrote. Tom Hanks calls out our whitewashed education and entertainment, citing Tulsa massace erasure 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z In 1892, Robert Lewis, a Black man, was lynched in New York after being accused of assaulting a white woman. 14 New Books Coming in May 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z When my teacher told us about the boy who had been lynched in 1955, she was very careful. Fahrenheit 2023: Even in Mississippi’s segregation academies, we learned about Emmett Till 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z “The Ox-Bow Incident” is all buildup, as a posse turns inexorably into a lynch mob. William Wellman Retrospective at Film Forum 2012-02-12T07:47:46Z And, in March, Congress finally approved a bill — known as “the Emmett Till Antilynching Act’’ — making lynching a federal hate crime. ‘Till’ Review: He Was Someone’s Son, Too 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z His mother’s cousin was lynched in 1931, while a student at Atlanta University. Darryl Pinckney on Race, Class and Being ‘Busted in New York’ 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z His conclusion: “Thompson did not commit suicide. . . . He was captured and killed by a posse of his neighbors, the victim of Virginia’s last lynching.” Perspective | A black man was lynched in 1932. An author wants the community to finally deal with it. 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z And he saw himself as black, although he passed as white to enable his travels through the South investigating lynchings and hate crimes. Passing in reverse: What does an NAACP leader’s case say about race? 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z In his artist statement, Mr. Thomas asks, “What happens when the visual legacy of American lynching collides with the visual legacy of the slam dunk?” | Connecticut and Westchester: Art About America at the Aldrich Museum in Ridgefield, Conn. 2012-09-22T05:19:06Z A lynching and the legacy of Jim Crow haunt generations of a family in Henderson’s second novel, which is ever alert to the proximity of oppressed and oppressor. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Lee labelled the film "Driving Mr Damon" and told the Boston Globe that in real life black men were being "castrated and lynched left and right". Spike Lee tipped to direct Oldboy remake 2011-07-06T12:57:13Z In her letter, published in Libération, Deneuve said she had signed the statement because she opposed the “media lynching” of men accused of inappropriate behaviour and found its message “vigorous” if not “entirely right”. Catherine Deneuve apologises to sex attack victims after #MeToo controversy 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z The act of lynching was, by calculation, intensely visual. A Memorial to the Lingering Horror of Lynching 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z And the Guardians are starting to serve as sort of a lynch pin for this whole universe; the Kree, which we first met this summer, pop up in the Inhumans and Captain Marvel origin stories. A Comic Book Dummy's Guide to the Marvel Universe Plan 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Many depict lynchings that the artist, who was born in 1947, heard about while growing up black in the South. The Outsider Fair Once More Confirms That Art Is Everywhere 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z In preparation for “Charley Patton,” the most ebullient and chilling of them, Mr. Lemon performed what he called “counter memorials” at lynching sites and danced in the living rooms of the relatives of blues musicians. Coming Full Circle After a Pause 2010-10-03T02:00:00Z In it, Koh’s playing — agitated extended technique — accompanies historical images of lynchings and racist cartoons. Two Musicians of Color Are Creating Their Own Space 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z "Thalidomide" then graphically evokes the imagery of a lynching. How Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage transforms our understanding of her poetry 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z This, while black men around the South were lynched for looking at white women. A real-life Lucious Lyon: The former slave who built a Beale Street “Empire” and transformed Memphis 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z “That actually was a lynching tree” in the 19th century, Mr. McQueen said. The Carpetbagger: Cuarón, McQueen or Russell, Who Will Catch Oscar’s Eye? 2014-01-29T22:46:47Z This is a monumentally scaled “open” memorial design, which depends not just on a building or fixed object but also on a process — the reclamation and adoption of local lynching memorials. Perspective | What should a coronavirus memorial look like? This powerful statement on gun violence offers a model. 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z At the same time that the Equal Justice Initiative has been gathering these evocative soil samples, it has been dispersing historical markers to the sites of lynchings. Perspective | Competing monuments in the cradle of the Confederacy and the Civil Rights movement 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Ultimately, a grand jury declined to indict anyone involved with the lynching, according to a wire article that was published in The Philadelphia Tribune in December 1927. The History of the Lynching Site Where Jason Aldean Filmed a Music Video 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z Their gruesome murders, on March 9, 1892, scarred their friend Ida B. Wells, who spent the rest of her life speaking out and writing the truth about lynching. A Visit to Montgomery’s Legacy Museum 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z A cluster of townspeople who might have been written off as bumpkins, drunkards and clowns coalesces into something like a lynch mob. ‘Fear’ Review: Stranger in a Strange Land 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z Early on, the region's Spanish-speaking inhabitants lynched because they considered popular justice superior to no justice. Frontier justice was brutal in Los Angeles, and 'Eternity Street' gets to the heart of the matter 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z The girls witness, through a cracked-open closet door, the lynching of their father at the hands of white men. Review | Brit Bennett’s ‘The Vanishing Half’ is a fierce examination of passing and the price people pay for a new identity 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z Another, filled with archival newspaper clips, explores the history of lynching in the United States. ‘Always in Season’ Review: Lynching Is Not Just Part of America’s Past 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z There is no record of lynchings on Long Island, and Jumby does not market itself as a plantation resort. Jamaica Kincaid’s Antigua 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Having already seen a lynching at age 10, Willie doesn't stick around. 'Paradise Sky' a rip-roaring tale about Western legend Nat Love 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Dozens of men, women, and children were lynched in a massacre in East St. Louis, Illinois, in 1917. A Memorial to the Lingering Horror of Lynching 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z That memorial, the most compelling U.S. memorial in decades, includes hundreds of steel columns, each one dedicated to a U.S. county where a lynching occurred. Perspective | What should a coronavirus memorial look like? This powerful statement on gun violence offers a model. 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z A county grand jury confirmed it, but soon, civil rights groups and local newspapers saw it for what it was: a lynching followed by a coverup. Perspective | A black man was lynched in 1932. An author wants the community to finally deal with it. 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z He’s got Shadow on board for the fight, Anansi too after the god of black injustice heard about the lynching, and there’s old nicotine fingers Czernobog too. American Gods recap: season one, episode five – David Bowie rules the world 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z The Klansmen find him, lynch him and dump his body on the porch. The Birth of a Nation: a gripping masterpiece … and a stain on history 2013-07-29T14:31:08Z It includes graphic footage of re-enactments of the events, focusing on the 1946 Moore’s Ford lynchings in Monroe, Georgia, in which two married African American couples were killed and hanged from a bridge. Always in Season: behind the painful film about lynching in America 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z Tyson’s absorbing retelling of the events leading up to the horrific lynching in 1955 includes an admission from Till’s accuser that some of her testimony was false. 100 Notable Books of 2017 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z A troubling image — the 1930s were a troubling time; lynchings were still taking place — it was obviously a reference to the outrages committed against the Scottsboro Boys. Perspective | In postponing Guston exhibition, the National Gallery and three other museums have made a terrible mistake 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z The National Memorial for Peace and Justice commemorates 4,400 people who were slain in lynchings and other racial killings between 1877 and 1950. Lynching memorial and museum in Alabama draw crowds, tears 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z We now live in a climate in Britain in which lynch mobs would not be short of volunteers happy to appear in a true crime documentary in the role of violent avengers. When true crime films prove to be guilty themselves 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z But I learned to tread lightly or risk being told, as I once was, by him, “you lynched my baby.” Jim Harrison, Mozart of the Prairie 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z He saw the jars of soil collected from lynching sites around the country as part of the EJI’s Community Remembrance Project. Tips for taking children to the new Legacy Museum and lynching memorial in Alabama 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z Wells went on to write exposés about school segregation and lynching in Memphis until she was forced to move to New York City for her safety. Black history through the years: 10 famous figures in the US 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z Darby answers it by saying it promotes a false equivalence, “shorn of context, nuance and power disparities. In theory, though, it’s more effective from a P.R. standpoint than lynchings, cross burnings and slur-filled pamphlets.” ‘Sisters in Hate’ Offers a Window Into Women in the White Nationalist Movement 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z Eight hundred suspended steel slabs that honor the victims of lynching in 800 counties create what may be the most emotionally impactful cultural experience in the country. Art That Confronts and Challenges Racism: Start Here 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z Lincoln does single-handedly prevent two white men from being lynched, but issues of race and slavery never arise. Mr. Lincoln Goes to Hollywood (and Looks Like Henry Fonda) 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Holiday was a world-renowned singer whose song “Strange Fruit” dramatized the horrors of lynching. NYC announces 4 new female statues including Billie Holiday 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z A regional black-market economy flourishes in the absence of jobs, lynch mobs fill the law enforcement vacuum and the temporary camp appears to grow more permanent by the year. Dadaab refugee camp, detailed in 'City of Thorns,' is a world ripped from the world 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z A camera pans past their lynched bodies hanging from trees, while Nina Simone sings “Strange Fruit.” The Rebirth of a Nation 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z White Alabamans were up in arms, lynch mobs were formed, and the young men — who were mostly teenagers — were convicted in speedy trials with their race serving as the chief evidence against them. Blackface and Bigotry, Finely Tuned 2010-10-15T16:57:00Z Polanski, 86, had stayed away, saying he feared a “feminist lynching”. Polanski’s ‘Oscar’ divides elite world of French cinema 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z In 2020, Wells was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on the lynching of African Americans. Monument to activist, journalist Ida B. Wells unveiled 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z As examples, she invokes the devotion of Emmett Till’s mother, who brought the teenager’s 1955 lynching to the forefront, and the black community’s embrace of Martin Luther King Jr. OWN’s ‘Cherish the Day’ is a rare celebration of black love 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z In the classroom, Green is cautiously pressing on with her mission to teach about “lynching and slavery and heart-wrenching stuff.” Teaching Southern and Black History Under Trump 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Southern whites, fearful of black veterans’ growing assertiveness, lynched them in their military uniforms. A Visit to Montgomery’s Legacy Museum 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z But I think seeing that at fourteen—not the murder of some terrible person, or the lynching of some bad person, but the lynching of two neighbors. Toni Morrison on Her Last Novel and the Voices of Her Characters 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Cosby’s attorneys, for instance, have likened the accusers to a “lynch mob” and have called the allegations lies. Cosby’s team says Gloria Allred is after publicity, wants Oct. 9 deposition sealed 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z After America’s First Reconstruction was attacked by the lynch mobs of white supremacists in the 1870s, it took nearly a hundred years for a Second Reconstruction to emerge in the civil rights movement. The power of “we”: Martin Luther King, the March on Washington, and the birth of Moral Mondays 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z One exhibit wall holds shelves of Mason jars filled with soil from lynching sites. A Visit to Montgomery’s Legacy Museum 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z After all the lynchings, the school burnings, the property thefts, it’s this tiny scrap of atrocity that finally exhausts Stamp Paid. Perspective | Toni Morrison not only remade American literature, she challenged us to resist the tenacity of racism 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, "Till," about the Emmett Till's lynching, has garnered Oscar buzz for Danielle Deadwyler's performance, but that does not necessarily motivate folks to see this heavy drama, based on a true story. Why aren't cinephiles taking the Oscar bait? Salon conducted an unscientific survey 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z Faragher chooses to focus on one episode in particular, a case study for those who assume they know American lynching from freshman readings on Jim Crow: Frontier justice was brutal in Los Angeles, and 'Eternity Street' gets to the heart of the matter 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z She took a Life magazine photograph of a person who has been lynched and tied to a tree. Endless Grief: The Spectacle of ‘Black Bodies in Pain’ 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z In life he was Daniel Robitaille, a 19th century Black portrait painter lynched to death by a white mob whipped into a rage by his white lover's father. No sweets for the sweet in new "Candyman," which neglects the legend's seductively scary legacy 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z The most brutal lynching photos are placed so that museum-goers can avoid looking at them head-on, but they cannot totally escape them. Painful but crucial: Why you’ll see Emmett Till’s casket at the African American museum 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z His South was a hellhole for African Americans, a place where people were routinely dragged from their homes and lynched. A New John Oliver Killens Novel Arrives, Three Decades After His Death 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z Always in Season is unsparing in the way it depicts racial lynching. Always in Season: behind the painful film about lynching in America 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z Even though some white Port Jervians expressed shock that a lynching had occurred in a quaint little burg like theirs, the writer Stephen Crane didn’t seem so surprised. When Jim Crow Violence Came to a Small New York Village 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z Eleanor Henderson: Sharecroppers, bootleggers, midwives, a cotton mill, a lynching, poverty, paternity, family, community, the disease of Jim Crow, other diseases, white savior complex, twins. 5 authors pull back the curtain on their new books 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z “Not just pictures of the Klan, but the end result of their behavior, the black folks being lynched.” When the Painting Is Provocative but the Museum Is Cautious 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z The show is about the lynching of a Jewish businessman in Georgia in the early 20th century. Tony Awards Give a Box Office Boost to Prize-Winning Shows 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z |
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