lynch

With the shoeshine under arrest, a Black militia gathered at a local jail to prevent a lynch mob from kidnapping and murdering him.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 3, 2023

He compared the riot to “a lynch mob of 150 years ago,” and lamented how many Americans have become “hate-filled.”

From Washington Post ● Jan. 27, 2023

Angry readers wrote to The Times in response to my favorable review of the series, insisting I was part of a lynch mob: “Shame on you!”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2021

John Edgar Wideman’s 1973 “The Lynchers,” about a group of Black men who plan to lynch a white police officer, is doleful and ambitiously literary, anticipating Wideman’s distinguished writing career.

From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2020

“Oh, that. Well, to hear the Post tell it, we lynch ’em for breakfast; the Journal doesn’t care; and the Times is so wrapped up in its duty to posterity it bores you to death.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee

US President Joe Biden established a national monument to honour Emmett Till, a black teenager who was lynched in 1955 in Mississippi, and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, on Tuesday.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2023

“Leopoldstadt” went on to win best play, while best musical revival went to another searing work about antisemitism: “Parade,” starring Ben Platt as Leo Frank, a Jewish man who was lynched in 1915 in Georgia.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 12, 2023

The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of making improper advances before he was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 has died in hospice care in Louisiana, a coroner’s report shows.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2023

In the 2017 Biennial, for example, the artist Dana Schutz, who is white, faced protests for painting the teenager Emmett Till, who was lynched, in his open casket.

From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2023

As of 1920, about 13 out of every 100 black children died in infancy, or roughly 20,000 children each year—compared to 28 people who were lynched in a year.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

In spite of all that, Diddy's mother recently defended her son on Sunday and accused the media and others of engaging in a "public lynching."

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2024

But the title’s blunt, irrefutable statement carries Allison Russell toward harsh thoughts about racism, slavery, exploitation, lynching and sin — and then to an unexpected coda.

From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2023

The law makes lynching a federal hate crime.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 9, 2023

The accusations featured in the 2019 documentary Leaving Neverland, which Jackson's family described as a "public lynching".

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2023

Also, we worked on reports and materials that seek to deepen the national conversation about the legacy of slavery and lynching and our nation's history of racial injustice.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson