There are 5 article(s) tagged Lynchings:

• July 2022

  • Victims’ families languish as state effort to document civil rights-era crimes stalls

    A 2018 law created the Tennessee Civil Rights Crimes, Information, Reconciliation, and Research Center, but provided no additional funding or staff.

    By Laura Faith Kebede July 08, 2022

• January 2022

  • Tennessee project would honor lynching victims

    Almost 82 years after the last documented lynching in Tennessee, a Republican and a Democrat want to commemorate all 154 victims statewide with Community Remembrance Project.

    By Ian Round January 30, 2022

• May 2021

  • Opinion: New Wells documentary speaks to today’s reckoning with race

    Ida B. Wells’ words and actions put to shame efforts by state legislatures today – including ours in Tennessee – to ban the teaching of systemic racism and its detrimental impact on people of color.

    By Otis Sanford May 20, 2021

• December 2018

  • Sanford: How newly elected Sen. Hyde-Smith can help alleviate racial discord in Mississippi

    I am willing to give the nearly 500,000 Mississippi voters the benefit of the doubt.

    By Otis Sanford December 04, 2018

• October 2018

  • How Memphis students came face to face with the painful history in their school’s backyard

    A few yards across from the parking lot of an all-boys Memphis school lies a small, tree-lined courtyard, where a class of eighth-graders studies a large historical marker.

    By Laura Faith Kebede October 15, 2018