SIKESTON, Mo. (KFVS) - Between the end of the Civil War and end of World War II, thousands of African Americans were lynched in the United States in violent and public acts. Today, victims are being ...

MOUNT STERLING, Ky. (LEX 18) — The Equal Justice Initiative dug up history in Montgomery County today. As part of the soil collection project, EJI located the spot in Mt. Sterling where they believe a ...

MOUNT STERLING, Ky. (WKYT) - In June 1882, a Black laborer from Montgomery Co. was lynched in downtown Mount Sterling. Back then, no one was held accountable for the crime. However, Saturday afternoon ...

Soil from the lynching site of Levi Harrington will be added to a jar on Saturday like this one, which memorializes the death of Erastus Brown, another Black man lynched in Missouri. The jars will be ...