Black HistoryNever ForgetQuick Black History LessonsNever Forget: The Lynching of John Carter – A Scapegoat For AngerY.R.A (BMS)May 29, 2022June 5, 2022 by Y.R.A (BMS)May 29, 2022June 5, 202202749 Little Rock, AR (1927) – On April 12, 1927, an 11-year-old white girl named Floella McDonald disappeared on her way home from the library. Family,...
Criminal JusticeTexas Executes White Supremacist Who Dragged Black Man To DeathBMS AdminApril 25, 2019April 25, 2019 by BMS AdminApril 25, 2019April 25, 201903821 An avowed racist who orchestrated one of the most gruesome hate crimes in U.S. history was executed Wednesday in Texas for the dragging death of...
CommunityNewsFerguson Activist Believes Son Was LynchedBMS AdminOctober 31, 2018June 14, 2019 by BMS AdminOctober 31, 2018June 14, 20194 10755 A Ferguson protester has said she believes her son was killed in retaliation for her activism, even as police investigate the man’s death as a...
Never ForgetNever Forget: The 1998 Savage Lynching Of James Byrd Jr.BMS AdminDecember 14, 2016December 19, 2016 by BMS AdminDecember 14, 2016December 19, 20162 24822 On June 7, 1998, a Black man in Jasper, TX was ‘lynched by dragging’ because he accepted a ride from three white men, one of...
Never ForgetNever Forget: The Horrific Lynching of Mary Turner and her BabyBMS AdminNovember 28, 2016September 23, 2018 by BMS AdminNovember 28, 2016September 23, 201846 453995 The chain of events that led to the lynching of Mary Turner started in May of 1918 on Hampton Smith’s plantation in Brooks County, Georgia....