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His San Diego death certificate says ‘suicide.’ Now he’s being recognized as California’s third ...
KPBS San Diego· 6 days agoJust before 8 p.m. on Saturday, April 27, 1946, Alton Collier boarded the Coronado ferry to San...
Strange fruit: How Billie Holiday's performance of the anti-lynching song politicized Black...
Phys.org· 7 days agoBillie Holiday's recording of the anti-lynching song "Strange Fruit" has stirred and haunted...
Proposal advances to surgically castrate sex offenders in Louisiana
Louisiana Illuminator via Yahoo News· 7 days agoLouisiana is close to letting its judges sentence sex offenders to surgical castration, despite...
How the Murder of a Black Grocery Store Owner and His Colleagues Galvanized Ida B. Wells' Anti-...
Smithsonian Magazine· 6 days agoIda B. Wells sat firmly while the Memphis streetcar man gripped her body and tried to forcibly...
Remembering the legacy of the Rev. William Lawson
The Martinsburg Journal· 14 hours agoLongtime Houston civil rights activist Rev. William “Bill” Lawson passed away this month at the age of 95. As a stalwart in the generation of civil...
Coronado man's death ruled suicide in 1946, today recognized as 'racial terror lynching'
U-T San Diego· 3 days agoInitial news accounts at the time said that the man, Alton Collier, argued with a couple of White sailors, slashed one of them with a knife, and when they responded with boat hooks, Collier ...
Louisiana bill to castrate sex offenders moving toward governor’s desk for signature
Fox News via Yahoo News· 1 day agoJordan claiming that defending the statute in court would cost the state at least $100,000, per the...
We’re All Living in Mexico Now. Politically Speaking.
Politico via Yahoo News· 4 days agoMexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s ability to command the stage explains a lot about Donald Trump — and offers lessons for Joe Biden.
100 years since Fort Myers lynching: ‘It should be remembered’
NBC 2 Fort Myers· 5 days agoSaturday marks 100 years since two Black boys were gruesomely lynched in Fort Myers. “It should be...
Mob lynches ex-lawman's reputed killers | Only in Oklahoma
Tulsa World· 3 days agoThe April 19, 1909, lynchings followed the confession by one of the men at a kangaroo court. The...