@speakup
Unbelievable, progress doesn't look like this
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Mississippi-based civil rights group JULIAN identified 70 "modern-day lynchings" in seven southern states from 2000 to 2025 in a report released last month.
There's a really important conceptual thread that links historical campaigns of racial terror to patterns we still see today," Bailey said, referencing research that includes nearly 6,500 documented racial terror lynchings between 1865 and 1950.
"Violence changes form over time, but the underlying dynamics don't just disappear."
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/07/lynching-south-black-americans-suicide-report