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Lives Lived: Harold Brown was one of the last surviving Black pilots of the Tuskegee Airmen and faced a lynch mob of villagers in Austria after his plane was downed in 1945.

From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 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

Fair and open elections are the lynch pin of our democracy.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 27, 2019

I learned that my fellow Seattleites found equivalency between a lynch mob and a mere Civil War re-enactment.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 29, 2017

“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

In Zambia, the hearsay about disappearing genitals first gained traction in March when a woman was lynched, going on to spread panic across the border in Tanzania.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

“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

He called Arbery the “Emmett Till of our day,” referencing the Black 14-year-old lynched in 1955.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 15, 2021

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

Stokes is clear that he does not know whether Fortune's death was a lynching, or whether race played a part at all.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

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 country singer labeled allegations that the song or video made references to lynching or that it is racially charged as “meritless” and “dangerous.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2023

Mrs. Malloy says Negro people came here to escape lynching and inhumane treatment.

From "Betty Before X" by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson