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Three Republicans Just Couldn’t Help Voting Against Making Lynching a Hate Crime
Reps. Andrew Clyde, Thomas Massie, and Chip Roy were the only House members who opposed The Emmett Till Antilynching Act
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Maryland Governor Grants Posthumous Pardons to 34 Victims of Racial Lynching
“My hope is that this action will at least in some way help to right these horrific wrongs,” Governor Larry Hogan said
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'Hanging Tree Guitars': See Artist Freeman Vines' Haunting Creations
A North Carolina guitar maker built instruments out of wood supposedly taken from a tree where a black farmer was once lynched
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'Hanging Tree Guitars': See Artist Freeman Vines' Haunting Creations
Freeman Vines, a North Carolina–based artist, guitar maker, and one-time blues musician, thought he’d seen it all: He’d worked for free on a white farm and served jail time for bootlegging. But about five years ago, a man approached Vines with two planks of black walnut wood from which he could make new instruments. “The […]
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Hanging Deaths of Two Black Men Ruled Suicides, Authorities Say
Robert Fuller, Malcolm Harsch were found dead weeks apart in California towns separated by about 50 miles
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The Exploitation of Lynching
America's most heinous form of racial terrorism should never be used to dodge suspicion of a crime, much less to allegedly stage one
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