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• Originally published 03/02/2016

  Are Police Shootings Really Like Lynchings?

  Karlos K. Hill

  The sad answer is that in too many ways the answer is yes.

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• Originally published 09/20/2015

  Horror Drove Her From South. 100 Years Later, She Returned.

  The incredible story unearthed by the Times of a 107 year old African American woman who returns for the first time since 1915 to the little Mississippi town her family fled after a lynching.

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• Originally published 08/24/2015

  1919, the Year of Racial Violence: An interview with David Krugler

  Robin Lindley

  In his new book 1919, The Year of Racial Violence: How African Americans Fought Back, professor Krugler goes beyond previous histories of this tumultuous period by putting African Americans at the center of the story.

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• Originally published 07/22/2015

  Firing of black police chief in Maryland’s Eastern Shore revives dark memory of the region’s past as a hotbed of lynchings

  This story will horrify you.

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• Originally published 02/10/2015

  History of Lynchings in the South Documents Nearly 4,000 Names

  After compiling an inventory of 3,959 lynching victims in 12 Southern states from 1877 to 1950, the Equal Justice Initiative wants to erect markers and memorials on certain sites.

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• Originally published 05/22/2014

  Lynching history spurs call for closure, 90 years later

  Denson-Rogers, a historian for the Lee County Black History Society, would like to see the victims' recognized.

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• Originally published 05/22/2014

  Reminding People of a Lynching Was What Bothered Them?

  Jonathan Harrison

  One disgruntled reader complained, "Just can't allow racism to fade away can you News Press?"

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• Originally published 02/23/2014

  Remember Way Back When White Men Killed Black Men to "Defend" White Women? (Hint: We're Talking About 2013)

  Crystal R. Sanders

  The justifications of the killers of Trayvon Martin and Jordan Davis draw upon the dark, bloody history of the fear of black men and white women.

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• Originally published 10/08/2013

  Nazis, Lynching and Obamacare

  Frank Bruni

  How absolutely bonkers -- yet how unsurprising -- our political analogies have come to this.

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• Originally published 07/15/2013

  Sanford, Fla., Threatened to Lynch Jackie Robinson

  Peter Dreier

  Neither of the Robinsons would ever forget their Florida ordeal.

• Originally published 02/05/2013

  Bill to clear Scottsboro Boys in Ala.

  MONTGOMERY, Ala. — In 1931, Alabama wanted to execute the black Scottsboro Boys because two white women claimed they were gang-raped. Now, state officials are trying to exonerate them in a famous case from the segregated South that some consider the beginning of the modern civil rights movement.Two Democratic and two Republican legislators unveiled proposals Monday for the legislative session starting Tuesday. A resolution labels the Scottsboro Boys as “victims of a series of gross injustice” and declares them exonerated. A companion bill gives the state parole board the power to issue posthumous pardons....

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• Originally published 11/02/2014

  Sodliers, Vets & the Rest of Us

  There's No There There

  Who will take care of our past, present and future war veterans and who will even care?