SARASOTA, Fla. — Black History Month is an opportunity to learn from the past to build a better future. This year, for Sarasota and Manatee counties, that means taking steps to recognize the ...

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- A memorial that honors thousands of victims of lynching and explores the lasting impact the practice had on American culture is now open in Alabama. The National Memorial for Peace ...

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 ...

On Aug. 28, 1955, near Money, Miss., Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Chicago teenager, was viciously maimed, tortured, shot, and drowned over an alleged slight made to a white woman at a grocery store. Why ...

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 ...

When artist Hannah Hasan drives past Bank of America Stadium, she remembers. Not a football game or a concert but Joseph McNeely, a brother, a son and a Black man who was killed by a white mob in 1913 ...

"We want our future generations to know that whatever happened, we have overcome, and there's a part for everybody," council member says.

(MONTGOMERY, Ala.) — The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, also referred to as the lynching museum, opens in Montgomery, Alabama, on Thursday. The memorial and museum are a project of the ...