Lynching

White Settlers Bizarre Economic Strategy of Terrorizing Black People

January 1, 2025 UNAC Editor Colonialism, Human Rights, Racism, The War at Home, War on the Poor, White Supremacy

by Jon Jeter, published on Black Agenda Report, December 11, 2024 Jordan Neely’s killing and the subsequent acquittal of Daniel Penny can be seen as part of the reactionary existential panic felt by whites whenever the country experiences growing economic instability and hardship. That jurors on Monday exonerated an ex-Marine for strangling an African American panhandler who was in mental[…]

U.S. Systemic Racism: From Slavery to George Floyd and Tyre Nichols

March 15, 2023 UNAC Editor Police Brutality, Racism, The War at Home

by Malik Miah, published on Socialist Action, March 9, 2023 Tyre Nichols, 29, was murdered by police in yet another modern-day lynching in Memphis, Tennessee on January 7. The city is nearly 70 percent African American, including a Black female police chief. What was unexpected and a surprise to many is that the five police officers were all African American.[…]

Following the Chauvin verdict: Stay in the streets!

April 22, 2021 UNAC Editor Featured, Police Brutality, Racism, Resistance

Workers World Party Statement, April 21, 2021 Workers World Party expresses its solidarity with the family of George Floyd, along with the Minneapolis community and anti-racist activists everywhere, who understandably applaud the three guilty verdicts against the racist, white, killer cop, Derek Chauvin, who wantonly lynched Floyd May 25, 2020. Chauvin was found guilty today, April 20, 2021, of second-degree[…]

A 21st Century Lynching: Justice for Ahmaud Arbery!

May 13, 2020 UNAC Editor Racism

by Dianne Mathiowetz, published on Workers World, May 12, 2020 In the early afternoon of Feb. 23, shots rang out on the tree-lined streets of Satilla Shores, a predominantly white neighborhood bordering the port city of Brunswick on Georgia’s Atlantic coast, some 40 miles north of Jacksonville, Fla. Afterward, a 25-year-old Black man, Ahmaud Arbery, lay dead on the pavement.[…]

Lynching, Racial Terror, and Black Liberation Theology

May 23, 2018 UNAC Editor Racism

Photo: Women protest lynching in 1946 by Peggy Rosenthal, originally published on Image Journal, May 14, 2018 The Reverend Dr. James H. Cone, known as the originator of black liberation theology, died of cancer on April 28 at the age of seventy-nine, just two days after the grand opening of The National Memorial for Peace and Justice and The Legacy[…]