First Indian female president of Oxford student union was subject to ‘racist cyber lynching’

The first Indian female president of Oxford University’s students’ union has said she was subjected to a racist ‘cyber lynching’ before she was forced to resign. Rashmi Samant, 22, stepped down within days of her election in February after old social media posts were unearthed. In one post, she had captioned a photo of herself … Read more

Cops told father who shot dead jogger to be a vigilante as his daughter says it was no lynching

Police appear to have been relying on one of Ahmaud Arbery’s alleged killers as a neighborhood point person for months before Arbery’s murder, a newly-surfaced text message reveals.  The text message was sent between what appears to be an officer at the Glynn County Police Department and Larry English, owner of the construction site that … Read more

Congress finally outlaws lynching – 65 years after murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till

The federal government reopened its investigation into the brutal slaying of black teenager Emmett Till in 2018, 63 years after the black teenager’s death in Mississippi.   The Justice Department told Congress in a report that March it is reinvestigating Till’s slaying in Money, Mississippi, in 1955 after receiving ‘new information’.  Till’s accuser Carolyn Bryant, pictured … Read more