A film tells of Leo Frank and century-old crimes

It's a century-old miscarriage of justice that still haunts anyone who knows of it, and will surely disturb viewers introduced to this tragedy in "The People v. Leo Frank," a powerful retelling that premieres Monday on PBS at 10 p.m. EDT.

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Angry mob lynches 2 robbery suspects in Ecuador

Police say an angry mob dragged two suspected robbers from a police station in Ecuador and burned them to death.

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Ga. authorities probe 1946 unsolved lynchings

Federal and state agents swarmed the backyard of a modest white house along a windy stretch in rural northeast Georgia this week in search of clues that could be linked to living suspects involved in the 1946 unsolved lynchings of four people.

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Lynching Resolution Rejected in Waco

A resolution denouncing lynchings in the 1800s and early 1900s was rejected Tuesday by county commissioners, while the City Council agreed to try to draft a document both bodies can accept.

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AP: FBI Reviews 1946 Public Lynching Case

Nearly 60 years after a white mob lynched two black couples on a summer afternoon and got away with it, the FBI is taking another look at the case.

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On Aug. 17, 1915, Leo Frank, a Cornell-educated Jewish industrialist, was lynched just outside Atlanta.

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9-12 Tea Party Lynching ? - Have Republicans gotten the message?

Although the FBI and local Kentucky authorities are not confirming any details there are many reports that suggest that the lynching of a 51 year old part time census worker is related to anti government sentiment. Reportedly the victim had the word "Fed" scrawled on his chest.

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This ridiculous article fails to mention the connivance of foreign donors in the extrajudicial killings and torture. It says that Bangladesh is an independent country: what a hoot! Bangladesh is run by foreign powers, who allow two psychopaths to run the country in turn.

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Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.), at a town hall Tuesday, crowed that Democratic lawmakers returning to their home districts "almost got lynched," by angry town hall protesters. His remark got applause from the crowd.

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The event -- a rally in Salisbury, Md. on the Eastern Shore -- was attended by members of the business-funded Americans for Prosperity, a group that includes James Miller, a Federal Trade Commission chairman and budget director during the Reagan administration.

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ALSIP, Illinois (CNN) -- Authorities revealed more disturbing discoveries Friday at an Illinois cemetery where hundreds of burial plots were allegedly dug up and resold, including more emptied graves and the discarded casket of a civil rights icon.

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Mob justice is alarmingly common but few seem to mind

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Photographs and Postcards of Lynching in America

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"The homosexuals will not escape lynching. They will be fish food," Dakar newspaper L'Observateur quoted a local youth leader as saying.

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Sean Hannity has stopped just one step short of calling for vigilanteism against Barack Obama. In the meanwhile, he's doing everything possible to "hang" Obama on national television night after night.

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Bigotry is the heaping of one man's insecurity on to another. Sexism, racism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, anti-Islamism, anti-immigrantism, really all come from the same place--cowardice.

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As someone with such a conciliatory soul, McClelland might shudder at the racial tempest his death has provoked.

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New York Times Editorial "A Lynching in Brooklyn The murder of José Sucuzhañay, an Ecuadorean immigrant who died over the weekend at a hospital in Queens, has thrown a harsh light onto a savage, hate-inspired crime that should sicken us all.".....

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O.J Simpson and the White Bronco & Record Breaking

O.J Simpson had the right ideal when he was riding in the white bronco...

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Eight people were arrested Tuesday, one on a charge of murder, in connection with the fatal shooting of a woman at a remote Louisiana campsite during what police say was an initiation ceremony for the Ku Klux Klan.

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Authorities at Baylor University have recovered a crude noose which was found in a tree on campus on Election Day, in what many believe was an effort to intimidate and frighten black students at the campus.

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'Long-overdue vindication' comes for 28 black soldiers cleared in a 1944 lynching.

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PROTESTERS have burned an effigy and used megaphones, horns and sirens outside a Queensland property housing convicted pedophile Dennis Ferguson.

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I am John Hamilton McWhorter, the fifth. The first John Hamilton McWhorter was a slave. This Thursday is Juneteenth, when I might be inclined to celebrate the emancipation of John Hamilton McWhorter, the first.

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Right wing zealots are manipulating the blue collar White American vote

When I started to ponder the actions of the ultra-right in their attacks on Senator Barack Obama it became apparent that they were employing a yesteryear hate group strategy only today they are exploiting racism through the carefully crafted use of euphemisms.

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Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men's penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft.

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The Emergence of the Contemporary "New Negro"

Barack Obama and the Immaculate-Genocide of the African-American Male By The Angryindian

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The church attended by Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) fought back Sunday against mounting criticism of its pastor, accusing the media of character assassination and "crucifixion."

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What should be the response of African Americans once the Democratic Party steals the nomination from Barack Obama?

Please note I did not say IF the Democrats steal the nomination from Obama, because there is no doubt in my mind it will occur.

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I have to admit, I never thought I'd see the day that Bill O'Reilly apologized for something.

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