Sentences with phrase «of lynchings by»

Rounding out the Social Realist offerings in a section of the show called «Fighting With All Our Might,» on the seventh floor, are several drawings of lynchings by artists including Paul Cadmus, Harry Sternberg, and Abraham Jacobs.

A cow by Gerhard Richter and wallpaper of a lynching by Robert Gober come a good dozen rooms before Cow Wallpaper.

Not exact matches

«He couldn't have been more supportive of making sure we got convicted the murderers of the last black man who was lynched by the Klan,» said former Justice Department attorney Barry Kowalski, who worked with Sessions.

They come amid growing scrutiny of blunders Facebook has made in policing content around the globe — from riots and lynchings sparked by the spread of hate speech and misinformation in countries such as Sri Lanka and Myanmar, to inflammatory posts attacking religions and races — even after U.S. users flagged them.

The people who resisted the Civil Rights movement in the south, many of whom used religious arguments, people who classified Blacks as animals, were degraded and debased by their own actions: turning fire hoses on children, setting dogs on peaceful marchers, lynching, firebombing churches...

103,536 1,033,000 9/11 (2001) 2,996 2,996 Afghanistan War (2001 - present) 57,774 77,774 Lynchings by KKK, etc. (Since 1882) 4,733 4,733 Siege of Jerusalem (70) 1,100,000 1,100,000 Serbian War (1992 - 1995) 96,667 96,667 Arab - Israeli Wars (1945 - 1995) 92,000 92,000 Lebanese Civil War (1975 - 1990) 130,000 250,000

People burned as witches, blacks lynched by Christians in this county, people killed in human sacrifices, servants killed to accompany pharaohs on their journeys to the afterlife, untold numbers of people killed in various cultures because they were deemed to have offended God in some way, and so on.

This explains why the founders of the KKK were Christians and most lynchings of blacks in the 20th century were committed by Christians.

My racist relatives in Mississippi used to talk about the moral decay brought by integrating black people into white society... of cours, e they didn't complain about the cross burnings or lynchings being moral decay..

During our conversation, he spent more time decrying rioting and calling for calm and prayer than lamenting the modern - day lynching by law enforcement of innocent black bodies that are piling up across the nation.

Jackson faces the elephants in the room of whites and blacks having deep, meaningful relationships very quickly, especially in book two when one of the White main character's husband, Denny, is mistaken by, MaDea, an aging African American woman who is suffering from dementia, as one of the men who brutally lynched her brother nearly 70 years ago.

If my grandparents had been beaten or lynched for the colour of their skin, if my parents had suffered under oppressive segregation, if I had a friend or relative who had been shot down in cold blood by a police department because that is just way more likely if you're Black in America, I'd have been angry, too.

In the post, he recommended A Different Mirror, Between the World and Me, The Cross the Lynching Tree, Divided by Faith, Just Mercy, Let Nobody Turn Us Around, More than Just Race, The New Jim Crow, The Warmth of Other Suns and Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria.

This completely calls the bluff of the lynch death, enabling humans to be less driven by fear and the need to do such things.

Imagine the power, serenity and spaciousness of someone who, because he is not driven by fear of death, is able to undergo an absolutely typical lynch death at human hands and to do so deliberately — and by doing so show that rather than death being definitive and powerful, it is no more than a frightening mirage.

A lot of those things haning under bridges are black people who were lynched by bigoted holy rollers who used their version of the «holy bible» to justify slavery.

Ramihrdus of Cambrai (1076 or 1077)(lynched) Peter of Bruys († 1130)(lynched) Gerard Segarelli († 1300) Maifreda da Pirovano († 1300) Andrea Saramiti († 1300) Fra Dolcino († 1307)(never tried by Catholic Church), Italy Sister Margherita († 1307), Italy Brother Longino († 1307), Italy Marguerite Porete († 1310) Botulf Botulfsson († 1311), the only known heretic executed in Sweden Jacques de Molay (1243 — 1314), burned after conviction by a tribunal under the control of King Philip IV of France, France Geoffroi de Charney († 1314), burned with Jacques de Molay above, France.

Just because being lynched is worse than being raped, doesn't mean that if one is vulnerable to both, one should do nothing to try to stop rape [Crimes Against Women: Proceedings of the International Tribunal, edited by Diana E. H. Russell and Nicole Van de Ven (Millbrae, California: Les Femmes, 1976), p. 89].

We are still burdened by the history of slavery, lynching and segregation and it compromises our ability to have a just system, and we have to deal with it.

Did you by chance see any of those black and white photos from back in the 30s at all those black lynchings?

They may be driven by a kind of herd mentality, but they are certainly not acting as a lynch mob.

For me, strong individual stats must be backed by a solid team defensive performance and in this regard, Koulibaly is the lynch pin of the Napoli defense that conceded the least amount of goals behind Juventus in Serie A this season.

Some SWIS supporters — and there are more than 3.000 throughout the country — describe the case as a «judicial lynching» of «uppity» blacks by the white establishment.

But the important thing is not forming a lynch mob when he hasn't even actually been accused of anything by anyone relevant to the situation.

It included the $ 7 million precedent - setting judgment against the United Klans of America on behalf of the mother of Michael Donald, a young black man lynched by the Klan in Mobile, Alabama.

One of the suspected ritualists was burnt alive, while two others were rescued by the Police from being lynched on Wednesday.

Minority in Parliament has called on government to use the opportunity presented by the lynching of Captain Maxwell Mahama to urgently «put an end to the culture of impunity and lawlessness which is pervasive across the country».

«I will repeat this statement again, Captain Mahama's death was orchestrated by the President Nana Addo, he ordered the assemblyman to incite the Denkyiraboase residents to lynch the soldier who was preventing the residents from engaging in galamsey, that's the truth, if you attempt, to tell the truth, you become a target of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), they almost killed me at Talensi, during the by - elections years ago,» she alleged.

He explained that any group of people who meted out instant justice by lynching suspected criminals should be dealt with according to the law irrespective of their political affiliation, saying «Ghana belongs to Ghanaians and not any political party.»

Dr Hassan Ayariga was reacting to the lynching of Major Mahama by some residents of Denkyira - Obuasi in the Upper West Denkyira District of the Central Region.

Flag bearer of the All People's Congress (APC), Dr Hassan Ayariga has said that lynching of Major Maxwell Mahama by residents of Denkyira - Obuasi will prevent foreign investors from doing business with Ghana.

It is important for you to know that there was a lynch mob, led by now Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, that took Hiram Monserrate to court where he was convicted of assaulting Karla Giraldo, and had him expelled from the New York State Senate.

The officer whose name has been given us Captain Maxwell Mahama was lynched by residents on suspicion of being an armed robber.

In another development, the Invisible Forces of Nana Akuffo Addo nearly lynched on Aboagye a loyalist of Alan Kyeremanteng at the funeral grounds.Aboagye's crime is that he has been offered a contract by the new administration.The Invisible Forces acting upon the orders of one of Nana's henchmen who attended the funeral, pounced on Aboagye and gave him some slaps but was saved by the security operatives of Former President Kufour who rushed to the scene to intervene and whisked him away.

Capt. Mahama was an officer of the 5th Infantry Battalion, and was said to have been on his daily jogging routine on Monday when he was lynched by some residents of Diaso.

«I've lost one of my fine officers who were detailed to come here on official duty protecting lives and properties, only to be lynched by the same community he is supposed to be protecting.

«The NDC is laying blame for this heinous and callous lynching of Captain Mahama at the doorstep of President Akufo - Addo,» the party said in a statement in Accra signed by its General Secretary, Johnson Aseidu Nketia.

However, attempts to carry out instant lynching of the suspect was said to have bee resisted by the traditional ruler of the city, Oba AbdulRasheed Adewale Akanbi, who insisted that the police must be allowed to do their job.

A suspected female kidnapper was lynched and set ablaze by angry mob at Offa Garage area of Ilorin on Monday.

«These attacks have grown in magnitude and they include attacks on security services, we have incidents where military officers have been lynched by mobs, we have instances where these vigilante groups calling themselves variously; Invisible forces, Delta forces, etc. invade police stations, break into cells and release suspects because they claim the NPP members are immune to any form of arrest in other words, they are living above the law because they happen to be members of a party living in power», he said.

Emmanuel Bamford said any of the residents had the opportunity to be a hero by standing up against the lynching and would have been celebrated but they all missed it.

Maxwell Adam Mahama was lynched on Monday, May 29, 2017 by residents of Denkyira Obuasi on suspicion that he was an armed robber.

Former President John Dramani Mahama has expressed his regret over the death of Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama who was lynched and burnt in the Central Region by some angry youth on Monday morning.

Captain Maxwell Mahama, who was lynched to death by a mob in Diaso in the Upper Denkyira West District of the Central Region, will be buried on Friday, the family spokespersons have said.

Captain Maxwell A. Mahama was lynched on Monday May 29 by irate youth of Denkyira Obuasi in the Central Region on suspicion that he was an armed robber, after a group of people spotted a gun on him.

The first was his own Officer Nanka Bruse who was attacked in the office of the President, the flagstaff house, this officer was nearly lynched by Npp invisible forces and the video evidence was widely circulated but the IGP has refused to even comment on it.

Capt. Mahama, who was deployed to the Denyira - Obuasi community in the Central Region region together with his colleague military officers to wage war on illegal mining, was lynched by residents of the area after they mistook him for an armed robber.

Capt. Mahama was lynched by residents of Denkyira - Obuasi on Monday after he was mistaken for an armed robber.

Tony Okafor A mathematics teacher at the Community Secondary School, Isuofia in Anambra State, Chiadikobi Ezeibekwe, and his family members narrowly escaped being lynched by some angry youths in their Agba village, Ekwulobia, in the Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State penultimate week, when news filtered that the teacher had secretly married his 17 - year - old -LSB-...]

Major Mahama, then a captain in the military, was lynched by some residents of Denkyira - Obuasi who mistook him for an armed robber, while on a routine morning fitness run.