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The lynching of Arthur Jordan in 1880 took place during one of the most violent and unstable periods in American […]

The lynching of Henry Smith remains one of the most horrifying examples of racial terror in late nineteenth-century America. His

The death of Eric Courtney Harris on April 2, 2015, in Tulsa, became one of the most widely discussed police

Tony Terrell Robinson Jr. was only 19 years old when his life was cut short on March 6, 2015, in

Charley Leundeu Keunang was a 43-year-old Cameroonian immigrant whose death on March 1, 2015, in Los Angeles, California, drew national

Sam Carter was one of the first victims of racial violence during the Rosewood Massacre, one of the most tragic

Jesse Washington was a 17-year-old African American farmhand whose life was taken in one of the most horrific acts of

Jordan Baker was a 26-year-old Black man, a college student, and a young father whose life ended in a controversial

Alteria Woods was a 21 year old woman from Gifford, Florida whose life was cut short during a police encounter

Sean Moore was a 46 year old Black man whose encounter with San Francisco police became one of the city’s