On Oct. 24, 1898, Alfred Moore Waddell, a former Confederate lieutenant colonel and member of Congress, stood at Thalian Hall in Wilmington, N.C., and called for White mobs to “choke the current of the Cape Fear with carcasses” to keep the city’s Black majority from voting and running the city government. “The time for smooth words has gone by, the extremest limit of forbearance has been reached,” Waddell thundered in a racist tirade. “Negro domination shall henceforth be only a shameful memory to us and an everlasting warning to those who shall ever again seek to revive it. ”Waddell, a...…On Oct. 24, 1898, Alfred Moore Waddell, a former Confederate lieutenant colonel and member of Congress, stood at Thalian Hall in Wilmington, N.C., and called for White mobs to “choke the current of the Cape Fear with carcasses” to keep the city’s Black majority from voting and running the city government. “The time for smooth words has gone by, the extremest limit of forbearance has been reached,” Waddell thundered in a racist tirade. “Negro domination shall henceforth be only a shameful memory to us and an everlasting warning to those who shall ever again seek to revive it. ”Waddell, a...WW…

As black people continue to die at the hands of police and vigilantes, the nation faces its long history of racial violence.Editor’s Note: This story contains sensitive imagery. We included a photograph of the lynching of Rubin Stacy as a historical reference to the horrific incidents described in this article. Lynching imagery was used to perpetuate white supremacist ideology by creating a record of brutality against black men and women. It was important to show that as part of this story.A video shows George Floyd, a black man, lying in the street in anguish, with his head crushed against...…As black people continue to die at the hands of police and vigilantes, the nation faces its long history of racial violence.Editor’s Note: This story contains sensitive imagery. We included a photograph of the lynching of Rubin Stacy as a historical reference to the horrific incidents described in this article. Lynching imagery was used to perpetuate white supremacist ideology by creating a record of brutality against black men and women. It was important to show that as part of this story.A video shows George Floyd, a black man, lying in the street in anguish, with his head crushed against...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThe news of freedom came late to more than 250,000 enslaved black people in Texas.On June 19, 1865 — more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the slaves in Confederate states — Maj. General Gordon Granger stood at the Headquarters District of Texas in Galveston and read “General Order No. 3”:“The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.”Black people who heard the news...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThe news of freedom came late to more than 250,000 enslaved black people in Texas.On June 19, 1865 — more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the slaves in Confederate states — Maj. General Gordon Granger stood at the Headquarters District of Texas in Galveston and read “General Order No. 3”:“The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.”Black people who heard the news...WW…

“These are homicides that have to be investigated.” As many as 300 Black people were killed during the massacre—this mass grave may be connected to the 100-year-old crime.…“These are homicides that have to be investigated.” As many as 300 Black people were killed during the massacre—this mass grave may be connected to the 100-year-old crime.WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareTULSA — A group of white anti-mask demonstrators jeered a black pastor outside Tulsa’s City Hall this week as he demanded reparations for the 1921 race massacre.The confrontation took place Wednesday as the Rev. Robert Turner delivered his weekly message about the need for reparations for one of the worst episodes of racial violence in U.S. history. A group of white people protesting Tulsa’s new mask ordinance swarmed him, poured water on him and grabbed at his bullhorn.shows the group shouting, “USA! USA! USA!” as Turner...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareTULSA — A group of white anti-mask demonstrators jeered a black pastor outside Tulsa’s City Hall this week as he demanded reparations for the 1921 race massacre.The confrontation took place Wednesday as the Rev. Robert Turner delivered his weekly message about the need for reparations for one of the worst episodes of racial violence in U.S. history. A group of white people protesting Tulsa’s new mask ordinance swarmed him, poured water on him and grabbed at his bullhorn.shows the group shouting, “USA! USA! USA!” as Turner...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareOn Feb. 4, 1968, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. mounted the pulpit of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, where he’d grown up listening to his father preach against social injustice in a segregated world.As leader of the civil rights movement, King was often away from the historic Black church led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Sr. But he tried to make it back to Ebenezer for the first and third Sunday services.Now, exactly two months before , he delivered a sermon with an uncannily prescient message. In “The Drum Major...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareOn Feb. 4, 1968, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. mounted the pulpit of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, where he’d grown up listening to his father preach against social injustice in a segregated world.As leader of the civil rights movement, King was often away from the historic Black church led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Sr. But he tried to make it back to Ebenezer for the first and third Sunday services.Now, exactly two months before , he delivered a sermon with an uncannily prescient message. In “The Drum Major...WW…