More than 4,000 lynchings happened in 12 Southern states between the Civil War and World War II, the EJI report found, with the most - 654 - documented in Mississippi. Another 361 were in Alabama, 549 ...

Ida B. Wells said it best, "Our country's national crime is lynching." Last week, we were reminded of this when the Equal Justice Initiative released its report ...

An organization that founded the nation’s first memorial to lynching victims announced Tuesday that it has documented thousands of additional killings of black people during the era of Reconstruction.

US President Joe Biden designated a new national monument Tuesday to memorialize the racist 1950s lynching of Emmett Till, and challenged Americans to confront their dark history or risk repeating the ...

A historic marker detailing lynching in Anne Arundel County and in America at Whitmore Park on Calvert Street is seen on Sept. 17, 2019, in Annapolis, MD. The Equal Justice Initiative historical ...

Google and the Equal Justice Initiative launched a website Tuesday that explores the history and legacy of racial terror in the United States, specifically during the ...

US President Joe Biden formally created a new national monument on Tuesday memorializing the horrific 1950s lynching of Emmett Till, with the White House framing the symbolic act as part of a fight ...