SHERMAN, Texas (KXII) - The City of Sherman has received ... the destruction of Sherman’s black business district, and the lynching of George Hughes, who was accused of sexually assaulting ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a famous book under the title Why We Can’t Wait.  Besides addressing the crime of slavery ...

Tina Harris remembers the day her grandmother, Mary Armwood, told her about Maryland's last documented lynching victim: ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to issue nationwide directives for uniform compensation and monitoring cases of mob lynching and cow vigilantism The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to ...

Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. is the last living witness to one of America’s most notorious lynchings. He was with his cousin, Emmett Till, in 1955 when the 14-year-old was accused of whistling at a ...

A similar accusation led to the lynching death of Emmett Till in Mississippi. The teenager’s brutal beating sparked major changes nationwide, cracking down on lynchings. In December, a marker was ...

Bukomansimbi North legislator Christine Ndiwalana, on Saturday evening narrowly survived being lynched by angry mourners who accused her of being responsible for the death of a 20-year-old boda ...

SHERMAN, Texas (KTEN) — The Sherman City Council gave its blessing for increased funding to some businesses to help revitalize historic downtown buildings. When Shawn Teamann took on the role of ...

Every time a lynching occurred in the U.S. between 1920 and 1936, the NAACP flew this flag from their headquarters on Fifth Avenue in New York. Library of Congress. Can one flag really change ...

SHERMAN, Texas — The search continues for an 8-year-old girl who went missing after a crash on Christmas Eve in Sherman. Clara Robinson went missing after her family got into a crash near U.S ...