Kalief Browder committed suicide. He was a young New York student who spent three years in Rikers Island jail without being convicted of a crime. … End of stealing a backpackRead more
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Lynching in America
Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror documents EJI’s multi-year investigation into lynching in twelve Southern states during the period between Reconstruction and … Lynching in AmericaRead more
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An Unsolved Case of Racial Terror
It was July 25th, 1946, when a white mob in rural Georgia ambushed a car carrying two African-American couples, dragged them out and shot them … An Unsolved Case of Racial TerrorRead more
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4,000 Lynchings in Jim Crow South
A new report has uncovered shocking details about the history of lynchings in the United States and their legacy today. After five years of exhaustive … 4,000 Lynchings in Jim Crow SouthRead more