lynching
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NJ High School Investigating Hanging Black Dummy Found by Girls Basketball Team
Officials at the Arthur L. Johnson High School in Clark, N.J., plan to investigate an incident in which a visiting girls basketball team found a black dummy hanging from its neck in a room they were assigned, the Courier News and Home Tribune reports. According to the report, when girls from the Plainfield High School…
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Black Freshmen at UPenn Targeted by Racist Social Media Group
Black students at the University of Pennsylvania awoke Friday to racist messages and graphic images posted to a social media group that they were added to without their permission. The Daily Pennsylvanian reports that several black freshmen were added to a GroupMe message labeled “Mud Men” that was full of racially explicit content. A member…
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Another White Student Posts Photos in Blackface on Social Media
Another day, another white college student caught in blackface on social media. The latest incident has sparked student body and community outrage at Xavier University in Cincinnati, after the image of a white female student in blackface went viral, Raw Story reports. The caption under the problematic Snapchat photo read, “Who needs white when black…
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Pa. Town Council Approves Motion to Censure Mayor Over Racist Obama Memes
A Pennsylvania town council approved a motion Monday night to censure its mayor over racist Facebook posts, including two showing apes with captions referencing President Barack Obama and his family, CBS News reports. The West York Town Council unanimously approved the motion to censure Mayor Charles Wasko, a Republican. “We will send a message to…
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UN Panel Says US Owes Black People Reparations
Colonial history, a legacy of enslavement and segregation are among the chief reasons reparations are owed to African Americans, according to a report put out by a United Nations group (pdf). The U.N.’s Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, which reports to the U.N. High Commissioner on Human Rights, presented its findings…
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American Lynching: 4,000 Unpunished Crimes
When I speak or teach, I love to tell my audiences that I know, deep in my heart, that they would turn down $1 million if it were offered to them. You would, too. I use a story that those who read about A. Philip Randolph, the leader of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters,…
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Emmett Till's Casket Is ‘One of Our Most Sacred Objects’ at African-American History Museum
Curating for a museum is no doubt a difficult job, and one of the more difficult decisions that Lonnie Bunch III—founding director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture—remembers grappling with was whether to include the casket that once held the brutalized remains of Emmett Till. “I remember struggling with, ‘Should we…
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Ga. Park Hanging Referred to FBI
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed issued a statement Thursday afternoon announcing that the case regarding a black man found hanging from a tree in the city’s Piedmont Park has been referred to the FBI, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. According to the site, the announcement came hours after social media users expressed suspicions and outrage, with some…
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Why It Matters That The New York Times Refused To Refer To "White People" When Reporting On Lynchings In America
As horrified as I’ve always been by the fact that thousands of Black Americans were lynched — unjustly murdered by mobs for crimes they did or didn’t commit — I recently learned that I haven’t quite been horrified enough. Very aware of much of the chilling history associated with that act of America terrorism —…