/tags/lynching Lynching en-US Copyright Wed, 08 Feb 2023 18:06:23 GMT /race-demographics/2023-02-08/pittsboro-library-chatham-county-lynching-victims Chatham Community Library partnered with a local group to put together the moving memorial for the victims. Wed, 08 Feb 2023 18:06:23 GMT /race-demographics/2023-02-08/pittsboro-library-chatham-county-lynching-victims Sharryse Piggott /news/2022-08-10/grand-jury-declines-to-indict-woman-in-emmett-till-killing A Mississippi grand jury has declined to indict the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago, most likely closing the case that shocked a nation and galvanized the modern civil rights movement. Wed, 10 Aug 2022 19:58:59 GMT /news/2022-08-10/grand-jury-declines-to-indict-woman-in-emmett-till-killing Associated Press /news/2022-08-05/emmett-till-and-the-1955-warrant-for-carolyn-bryant-donhams-arrest In August 1955, Chicago teenager Emmett Till died a gruesome death. The Black boy was lynched, while visiting family in Mississippi. No one has ever been convicted of the crime, but an unserved warrant was recently discovered for Carolyn Bryant Donham. Fri, 05 Aug 2022 17:33:44 GMT /news/2022-08-05/emmett-till-and-the-1955-warrant-for-carolyn-bryant-donhams-arrest Leoneda Inge /news/2022-05-16/lynching-victims-remembered-mourned-at-chatham-county-event About 100 people attended a service to honor the memories of five people who were lynched in the county more than a century ago. Mon, 16 May 2022 22:27:07 GMT /news/2022-05-16/lynching-victims-remembered-mourned-at-chatham-county-event Associated Press /arts-culture/2022-03-28/dar-he-artistic-advocacy-mike-wiley-emmett-till-playwright The North Carolina-based playwright and actor Mike Wiley has spent the past 15 years performing his one-man show "Dar He," educating audiences about the 1955 murder and lynching of Emmett Till. Mon, 28 Mar 2022 13:35:16 GMT /arts-culture/2022-03-28/dar-he-artistic-advocacy-mike-wiley-emmett-till-playwright Leoneda Inge /race-demographics/2021-10-08/north-carolina-apology-for-the-1921-lynching-of-black-teen A local governing board in North Carolina has formally apologized for the mob lynching of a Black boy unlawfully taken from a jail in 1921. Now a century later, the Board of Commissioners in Chatham County, North Carolina, issued its apology Tuesday, calling it a step toward community healing. Fri, 08 Oct 2021 14:12:44 GMT /race-demographics/2021-10-08/north-carolina-apology-for-the-1921-lynching-of-black-teen Associated Press /podcast/ways-and-means-podcast/2021-09-10/white-brutality Throughout the nation’s history, promising signs of Black American progress have been shattered by acts of violence serving the interests of white supremacy. The extent of that violence is widespread and ongoing. From lynchings to the decimation of entire communities by white mob savagery with deadly and far-reaching consequences. Examples of this American brand of white violence affected Black wealth and Black lives in Colfax (1873) and Coushatta, Louisiana (1874), Wilmington, North Carolina (1898), Atlanta (1906), Elaine, Arkansas and Chicago (1919), in Ocoee, Florida (1920) and the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma (1921), to name only a few. | Learn more at waysandmeansshow.org. Fri, 10 Sep 2021 19:43:01 GMT /podcast/ways-and-means-podcast/2021-09-10/white-brutality /news/2019-12-06/nc-man-convicted-of-death-threat-against-muslim-candidate A North Carolina man was convicted Friday of a charge he anonymously threatened to lynch a Muslim-American man who ran for a state Senate seat in… Fri, 06 Dec 2019 21:43:18 GMT /news/2019-12-06/nc-man-convicted-of-death-threat-against-muslim-candidate Associated Press /arts-culture/2019-04-03/full-frame-documentaries-showcase-the-good-and-the-bad-of-southern-history Nearly 100 documentary films from around the world will be shown this week and weekend in downtown Durham. It’s the 22nd annual Full Frame Documentary… Wed, 03 Apr 2019 16:48:59 GMT /arts-culture/2019-04-03/full-frame-documentaries-showcase-the-good-and-the-bad-of-southern-history Leoneda Inge /show/the-state-of-things/2019-03-27/lynchings-not-a-historical-artifact-lennon-lacy-death-explored-in-new-film There was a time when lynchings were treated like a parade through town or a big community event. Some were even commemorated on picture postcards and… Wed, 27 Mar 2019 16:39:41 GMT /show/the-state-of-things/2019-03-27/lynchings-not-a-historical-artifact-lennon-lacy-death-explored-in-new-film Dana Terry, Frank Stasio