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Renowned civil rights attorney Ben Crump continues to fight for justice. Crump has been hired to serve as the lawyer for the family of Ahmaud Arbery, the Black Georgia man whose death has made national headlines. On Feb. 23, 2020, Arbery, 25, was killed while jogging a few miles from his home in Brunswick, Georgia,…

Nathaniel Woods has been executed by the state of Alabama. On March 5, Woods died of lethal injection after the U.S. Supreme Court lifted a temporary stay to further review his case. Woods was convicted in the deaths of three police officers that occurred in 2004. However, Woods’ co-defendant, Kerry Spencer, revealed that he was…

Taemon Blair, 21, was once a high school honor student with a promising future. To support his girlfriend and the upcoming birth of his first child, the North Carolina native decided to become a truck driver. However, on March 14, Blair was found dead while hanging inside the trailer of his truck in Fort Wayne,…

In 1946, the state of Georgia allowed Blacks to vote for the first time in what was known as the all-White primary. A ruling that year by the U.S. Supreme court, known as King v. Chapman, declared the White primary to be unconstitutional, which allowed Blacks to vote in the state of Georgia. Racists were…

An activist mother in St. Louis, Missouri, is calling out for justice after her son was found hanging from a tree. On October 17, 2018, Melissa McKinnies saw the body of her son Danye Jones, 24, hanging from a tree. McKinnies was a member of the grassroots organization Lost Voices that protested the death of unarmed teen…

Lynching. The very word conjures images of twisted Black faces, bulging eyes, and charred bodies. Since Reconstruction, Black men and women have been on the receiving end of this domestic terrorism. Oftentimes, it appeared that the crowds of people who gathered to witness this spectacle were enjoying themselves. Postcards and pictures captured the helplessness of its…

On April 26, the nation’s first memorial to lynching in America was opened in Montgomery, Alabama. The memorial sheds light on the horrific racism that led to over 4,000 Blacks being lynched on U.S. soil. The lynchings were an act of terrorism against American citizens. Most of the acts of violence remain unsolved today. One…

Social media is on fire after Florida based rapper XXXTentacion, whose real name is Jahseh Dwayne Onfroy, 19, posted a new music video this week that many are calling tasteless. The video titled “Look at Me,” which was written and directed by the rapper, opens with a violent act against a White teacher in a classroom…

A biracial boy in Claremont, New Hampshire was nearly lynched by White teens. According to NH1, Cassandra Merlin shared the story of her 8-year-old son’s attack on Facebook. “My son is being flown to Dartmouth after a 14-year-old kid decided to hang him from a tree. I don’t care if this was a so called…

This upcoming weekend will mark 71 years since the last known mass lynching occurred in the state of Georgia known as the “Moore’s Ford Bridge lynchings.” For the past 13 years, activists led by former Georgia State Rep. Tyrone Brooks have commemorated the lynchings of Roger Malcolm, his seven-months pregnant wife Dorothy and their friends, George…

By now, many have seen a segment with renowned Black journalist and college professor Lisa Durden on the “Tucker Carlson Tonight” show. The exchange about a “Black Lives Matter” Memorial Day event that was billed as Blacks only resulted in Durden being terminated from her position as an adjunct professor at Essex County College in…

There are many counties and towns in Georgia that bear the name of former slave masters and hold horrific secrets. One such town is Monroe, Georgia, located in Walton County, only 60 miles from downtown Atlanta. This tiny town with a population of around 14K received national attention for the lynchings of two black couples…

The legacy of Blacks being lynched is perhaps one of the greatest acts of state-sponsored terrorism in the Deep South. According to the New York Times and other sources, It is estimated that between the years of 1877 and 1950 a minimum of 4,000 lynchings occurred with little to no repercussions to those who were…

A Black mother in Waco, Texas is outraged after her daughter came home from a school trip with rope burns around her neck. Sandy Rougley sent her daughter on an overnight school trip with her sixth grade classmates last month. During the trip, according to school officials a rope was mistakenly wrapped around her daughter’s…

Tyrone Brooks

Former Georgia state Rep. Tyrone Brooks, 70, has been a stalwart warrior on the battlefield for civil rights since the early 1960s. He was a trusted youth leader and foot soldier for Dr. Martin L. King Jr. Brooks has received death threats from the Georgia KKK throughout his life because of his activities. Now Brooks…

There are many counties and towns in Georgia that bear the name of former slave masters and hold horrific secrets of lynching. One such town is Monroe, Georgia, located in Walton County, only 60 miles from downtown Atlanta. This tiny town with a population of around 14,000 received national attention for a lynching of two black…

A Black man in a small Georgia town was found hanging from a tree. According to reports by WXIA, Roosevelt Champion III, 43, was discovered hanging from a tree in Greensboro, Georgia, on the morning of May 11. Shortly after 11 a.m., someone noticed Champion’s motionless body hanging from a tree in someone’s backyard. He…

Although racial lynching is often viewed as a thing of the past, there have been several cases where Blacks have been lynched in modern times. Here are five horrific modern-day lynchings of Black people by the hands of racists.

A Black man was found lynched in Mississippi. On March 19, Otis Byrd, 54, was found hanging from a tree in Port Gibson, Mississippi. His body was too decomposed for police to ID him. According to WJTV, Byrd was dropped off at Vicksburg’s Riverwalk Casino on March 9 and never returned home. His family reported him missing…