lynching

2Apr

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SOCIAL JUSTICE, VIDEO REELS

Mamie Till-Mobley’s Quest To Educate The World About Her Son’s Lynching Marches On With The Movie ‘Till’

After 14-year-old Emmett Till was kidnapped, severely beaten and killed in the Mississippi Delta on Aug. 28, 1955, his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, made the courageous decision to reveal her son’s corpse for all to see. Till-Mobley’s choice allowed audiences to bear witness to an act of racial violence, and the new film “Till” promises to unveil the complete story of how she responded to her son’s brutal death. However, when a theatrical poster for “Till” was released in the summer of 2022, some people immediately denounced the film on Facebook and Twitter. Critics accused the project of profiting off Black pain and argued that there were other accounts of the Black experience worthy of cinematic representation. “I’m tired of seeing award winning movies about our people being torn apart...

Lynching preachers: How black pastors resisted Jim Crow and white pastors incited racial violence

10Feb

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Journalism

Lynching preachers: How black pastors resisted Jim Crow and white pastors incited racial violence

White lynch mobs in America murdered at least 4,467 people between 1883 and 1941, hanging, burning, dismembering, garroting and blowtorching their victims. Their violence was widespread but not indiscriminate: About 3,300 of the lynched were black, according to the most recent count by sociologists Charles Seguin and David Rigby. The remaining dead were white, Mexican, of Mexican descent, Native American, Chinese or Japanese. Such numbers, based on verifiable newspaper reports, represent a minimum. The full human toll of racial lynching may remain ever beyond reach. Religion was no barrier for these white murderers, as I’ve discovered in my research on Christianity and lynch mobs in the Reconstruction-era South. White preachers incited racial violence, joined the Ku Klux Klan and lynche...

23Oct

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Journalism

Trump claim brings pain to relatives of lynching victims

The president's comments were ill-informed at best and racist at worst, relatives of lynching victims say. The National Memorial for Peace and Justice honours thousands of people killed in racist lynchings in Montgomery, Alabama [File: Brynn Anderson/AP] Willie Edwards Jr, a black truck driver, was killed by Ku Klux Klansmen who forced him to jump off a bridge in Alabama in 1957. Two years earlier, white men bludgeoned black teenager Emmett Till to death in Mississippi. No one went to prison for either slaying. Both people died in racist lynchings and relatives of each were aghast on Tuesday after President Donald Trump compared his own possible impeachment to lynching - racist killings, often to incite terror, that took an estimated 4,400 black lives over...

Memorial for Lynching Victims a First Step Toward Reconciliation

24Jul

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Journalism

Memorial for Lynching Victims a First Step Toward Reconciliation

It offers a place of reckoning for generations of racial trauma. When she saw the name Ed Bracy on a placard in the The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, 68-year-old Sophia Bracy Harris felt goosebumps. “I just went frozen for a moment,” she recalls. This was the relative she remembers hearing about as a child growing up in Elmore County, just north of Montgomery, Alabama. The story goes, Ed Bracy was hanged for his work organizing tenant farmers in the mid-1930s. “In that moment, I was aware that this was a family member, that this was a direct connection to me,” she says. More than 4,000 African Americans were lynched from 1877 to 1950, giving rise to The Great Migration—as over 6 million African Americans left the South to resettle in the North and West. African America...

Attorneys: Ronnie Shumpert Killing ‘A Modern Day Lynching’

4Apr

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IN OTHER NEWS

Attorneys: Ronnie Shumpert Killing ‘A Modern Day Lynching’

A Mississippi police officer has been accused of shooting and killing an unarmed Black man and allowing a police dog to mutilate him. The incident occurred after the man ran during a routine traffic stop. Antwun "Ronnie" Shumpert was pulled over by Tupelo Police Officer Tyler Cook around 9:30pm on June 18, ThinkProgress reports. According to attorneys, the 37-year-old father of five immediately exited his vehicle and ran for unknown reasons. The officer then released a K-9 who found Shumpert hiding under a nearby home. The dog gashed a hole through his testicles during the attack and scratched him across his body.Officer Cook then shot Shumpert four times when he found him. Carlos Moore is representing Shumpert's family. He says Shumpert was also found to have suffered from injuries to his...