The practice of lynching African-Americans during the early history of the United States has had lasting effects on society today, author Philip Dray said yesterday in the third of the ...

A final report produced by a commission established to investigate the history of lynchings in Maryland urges the state and several local jurisdictions to acknowledge ...

Montgomery shows what’s possible when museums aren’t subject to capricious executive orders.

The Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission releases its final report, outlining recommendations for repair, ...

Benjamin Hance and Charles Whitley are tied together through dark periods of Southern Maryland’s past, and healing for the two lynchings will continue when the Maryland Lynching Truth and ...

A Maryland commission recently concluded that state leaders and institutions were complicit in 38 lynchings and the widespread racial terror that followed the Civil ...

The Carencro community unveiled a historical marker honoring Louis Senegal and Antoine Domingue, two Black men lynched in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The marker, at 409 Veterans Dr. in ...

GIVES US A GLIMPSE AT THE EXHIBIT. 38 JARS SIT INSIDE THE NEW LYNCHING IN MARYLAND EXHIBIT AT THE REGINALD F LEWIS MUSEUM, REPRESENTING EACH OF MARYLAND’S 38 DOCUMENTED LYNCHING VICTIMS. AND I WANT ...

Quilts memorializing lynching victims in municipalities throughout Alachua County are now on display at the Matheson History ...

Extralegal killings as a response to crimes or as an expression of hatred regularly occurred during the Jim Crow era of the late 1800s to mid-1900s. Only one documented lynching occurred in Cape ...

Maryland lawmakers overrode Gov. Wes Moore's veto to establish reparations commission while lynching truth commission members defended their work.