Lynching

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The Root's crime stories from the week of Dec. 29, 2024.

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The sheriff's office denies the claim Javion Magee was lynched.

The racist, fatal beating of John Tucker back in 1845 is now part of the city’s cultural trail.

James Byrd was walking home from a friend’s party when a truck full of white men offered him a ride home.

When Black people are brutalized by white folks on camera, the results are usually very different.

The House unanimously voted on Wednesday to award both Emmett Till and his mother and activist Mamie Till-Mobley…

The Grammy-winner also found himself as the butt of the joke on SNL.

The district said they couldn’t share exactly what was deemed “inappropriate” but we have an idea.

The first Black Kentuckian to receive a Democratic nomination for Senate wearing a noose in the emotional ad…

Sherrilyn Ifill--the former leader of the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund--took to Twitter to blast Gohmert's ignorant…

David Dietrich, of Hampton's electoral board, has resigned following the resurfacing of racist Facebook posts…

Black leaders around the country praise the passing of the "Emmett Till Anti-Lynching" Act, but also acknowledge…

President Joe Biden signs anti-lynching act named for slain Emmett Till.

The 1922 death of George Tompkins has now been ruled a homicide by a coroner.

The historic bill carries a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison.

Peter Bernando Spencer was the only Black man on a camping trip he took with his former colleague and other men

Fred Rouse was lynched by a white mob in 1921. A century later, his grandson is memorializing him

Among the list of open cases are police shootings of Black victims, an arson that killed a 9-year-old girl in…