DeNeen Brown

In 1915, Methodist preacher William Joseph Simmons led a group of white men up Stone Mountain in Georgia to burn a cross. The Klan, he declared, was born again.

Fifty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson used the nation’s shock, grief and rage over King’s death to pass a landmark civil rights bill.

The Legacy Museum and National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Ala., honors more than 4,000 victims of lynchings, including Matthew Williams, who was brutally attacked and killed by a mob on Maryland’s Eastern Shore in 1931.

Amy Hayes celebrated her fifth birthday just days before she was injured in crossfire in one of Baltimore’s most violent neighborhoods.

Stone, who has been indicted in the special counsel’s Russia investigation, may need a pardon himself. He’s an unlikely champion for Garvey, who died in 1940.

Redoshi may have been 110 years old when she died in Alabama in 1937, a British researcher announced this week.

A state archaeologist said the bones discovered Tuesday in Oaklawn Cemetery will be examined for trauma.

Much of the acrimony in Tulsa revolves around the issue of reparations for the 1921 race massacre, which left as many as 300 dead and 10,000 homeless and destroyed one of the most prosperous Black neighborhoods in the country.

A 21-year-old Black man was found hanging from a tree in Scott County, Miss., in 2018. Authorities ruled it was ruled a suicide, but his family says he was lynched.

Viola Fletcher and her 100-year-old brother flew in August from Oklahoma to Ghana, where they were honored by the West African nation for their resilience and fearlessness.