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Tag: lynchings

Michelle Duster, great-granddaughter of Ida B. Wells, stands with Vice President Kamala Harris (left) and President Joe Biden after Biden signed into law H.R. 55, the Emmett Till Anti-lynching Act, in the White House Rose Garden on March 29. (Cheriss May/The Washington Informer)
Posted inOpinion

WILLIAMS: Lynching

by E. Faye Williams April 13, 2022April 13, 2022

In the past century, the effort to legally outlaw lynching federally failed over 200 times. I cannot and never have been able to understand how lynching could not have been determined as the physical embodiment of hatred.

Vice President Kamala Harris praised the Black Press, including Ida B. Wells, for its decades of service in bring those who commit acts of lynching after President Biden signed into law H.R. 55, the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, in the White House Rose Garden on March 29. (Cheriss May/The Washington Informer)
Posted inBlack Experience

Kamala Harris Praises Black Press at Anti-Lynching Bill Signing

by Stacy M. Brown March 29, 2022March 30, 2022
Michelle Duster, great-granddaughter of Ida B. Wells, stands with Vice President Kamala Harris (left) and President Joe Biden after Biden signed into law H.R. 55, the Emmett Till Anti-lynching Act, in the White House Rose Garden on March 29. (Cheriss May/The Washington Informer)
Posted inPolitics

Biden Signs Anti-Lynching Bill into Law

by Stacy M. Brown March 29, 2022March 30, 2022
Posted inColumnists, Faith, Lyndia Grant, Religion

THE RELIGION CORNER: Black Women Lynched in America — A Women’s History Month Story

by Lyndia Grant March 4, 2020December 21, 2021
Posted inOp-Ed, Opinion

WILLIAMS: U.S. Must Face Terrible Past of Lynching

by WI Guest Author March 4, 2020December 21, 2021
Courtesy of NNPA Newswire
Posted inBlack Experience, Black History, Stacy M. Brown

Interactive Comprehensive Map Shows Thousands of Lynchings Throughout American History

by WI Guest Author November 7, 2019December 21, 2021
Bananas were found in nooses at three locations on campus. (Courtesy of NBC4)
Posted inJulianne Malveaux, Op-Ed, Opinion

MALVEAUX: Nooses, Lynching and Racial Intimidation

by WI Guest Author October 30, 2019December 21, 2021
Posted inBenjamin F. Chavis Jr., Columnists, Op-Ed, Opinion

CHAVIS: Stop Invisible Lynchings in America

by Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis April 3, 2019October 31, 2020
Posted inBlack Experience, Black History, National

Bill to Create Commission on Md. Lynching History Goes to Senate

by WI Guest Author March 18, 2019October 31, 2020
Cory Booker, Kamala Harris
Posted inPolitics

Booker Thankful for Support in the Passage of Historic Anti-Lynching Bill

by WI Guest Author December 31, 2018October 31, 2020

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