Lynchings
Daily Comment
Would Showing Graphic Images of Mass Shootings Spur Action to Stop Them?
Returning to an old debate after the horrific killings in Uvalde, Texas.
By Jelani Cobb
Daily Comment
Remembering a Victim of an Anti-Asian Attack, a Hundred and Fifty Years Later
Gene Tong, a popular herbal-medicine doctor in Los Angeles, was hanged by a mob during one of the worst mass lynchings in American history.
By Michael Luo
Books
Percival Everett’s Deadly Serious Comedy
The novelist has regularly exploded our models of genre and identity. In “The Trees,” he’s raising the stakes, confronting America’s legacy of lynching in a mystery at once hilarious and horrifying.
By Julian Lucas
The New Yorker Documentary
Life After Lynching in “Ashes to Ashes”
The artist Winfred Rembert and the activist and physician Shirley Jackson Whitaker reckon with the living legacy of racist violence in America.
By Rachel Riederer
News Desk
A Devastating, Overdue National Memorial to Lynching Victims
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, which opens this week, in Alabama, forces visitors to face the country’s history of racist terror.
By Alexis Okeowo
Profiles
The Legacy of Lynching, on Death Row
In Alabama, Bryan Stevenson is saving inmates from execution and memorializing the darkest episodes of America’s past.
By Jeffrey Toobin