May 24, 2021
Comments Off on Memorial to 3 lynching victims unveiled at Salisbury courthouse
Dozens of people gathered in an Eastern Shore city Saturday for the unveiling of a memorial honoring three young Black men who were lynched by white mobs in Maryland decades ago.
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President Donald Trump triggered outrage Tuesday by comparing the Democrat-led impeachment inquiry to a lynching, assigning the horrors of a deadly and racist chapter in U.S. history to a process laid out in the Constitution.
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June 20, 2018
Comments Off on Maryland’s capital city apologizes for 5 lynchings
The city council of Maryland's capital has apologized for the lynchings of five African-Americans more than a century ago, a step toward accepting a historic marker for public display.
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April 23, 2018
Comments Off on New lynching memorial evokes terror of victims
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Visitors to the new National Memorial for Peace and Justice first glimpse them, eerily, in the distance: Brown rectangular slabs, 800 in all, inscribed with the names of more than 4,000 souls who lost their lives in ...
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