Lynchings

President Biden signed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act into law, the culmination of more than a century of efforts to designate lynching as a federal hate crime.

A month ago, agriculture commissioner Sid Miller faced online backlash after tweeting the phrase “get a rope” – a statement critics said harkens back to…

A lynching that took place 97 years ago in Abilene, Texas, was publicly recognized for the first time Saturday, in part because of one college student's…