Sentences with phrase «where lynching»

It painstakingly examines what EJI describes as «terror lynchings» in the 12 U.S. states where lynching was most active.

The film isn't set in a definitive year, though it seems to be in a time where lynching and protesting were out of style, and casual racism has become the norm.

Not exact matches

That Patterson recognizes this in his second chapter, where he reflects on how the difficulties of the South during the «transitional period» led to the activities of lynch mobs, makes even more striking his disinclination to extend this objectivity to African - American men.

«White theologians didn't say anything about lynching,» Cone said from his office at Union Theological Seminary in New York, where he teaches a course on Niebuhr.

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 State House, where the funeral took place has been filled with tears from family, friends, statesmen and even people who never met the late military officer who was lynched at Denkyira - Obuasi last week 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.

«Not only did the political lynch mob led by Eric T. Schneiderman, a Democrat, wait just days before the election to bring charges, he planned weeks ago to arrest Sen. Huntley at her home where news outlets could take pictures of her in handcuffs,» Evans wrote.

«Modern day lynching has to stop,» said Malcolm, who along with her husband wore a T - shirt with a picture of her son and the phrase: «Where is my justice?»

With such a venomous critique of so many beloved celebrities and widely - used treatments (even multi-vitamins don't make the cut), one can only imagine that Dr. Offit isn't making the rounds on a traditional book tour, where angry mobs of chiropractors, homeopaths, Chinese medicine practitioners, and integrative medicine doctors would likely try to lynch him.

In this episode meet a would - be utopia in Spain where civic life is managed on Twitter; a teacher who becomes the target of a digital lynch mob; and the father of a school shooting victim who must prove to the internet that his son existed.

The scene where Solomon thinks about running but comes across a sickening lynching.

He's just as at home spending time with the gentle, loving family of the accused as he is in the raucous courtroom (where people show up drunk, take naps and generally wait for the lynching to begin).

Lynching created a «fearful environment where racial subordination and segregation was maintained with limited resistance for decades,» the nonprofit's 2015 report said.

Shirah Dedman, Phoebe Dedman, and Luz Myles visiting Shreveport, Louisiana, where in 1912 their relative Thomas Miles, Sr., was lynched.

Many of these artists — who were somewhat older than Noguchi — spent their summers in Woodstock, New York, where the latter also spent time and where he created one of his major early sculptures, Death (Lynched Figure), of 1934.

Noah Purifoy's work amasses found objects — chair - casters, pipes, shoe lasts — into mysterious totemic structures that tap into a vein of traditional African belief that runs deep in American culture, while Betye Saar brings a chilling political twist to the form with the likes of Sambo's Banjo, where she dangles the image of a lynched man inside a «Sambo» banjo case.

This performance will bring to life the different scenarios of lynchings, places where communities gathered with women and children proudly watching these atrocities.

Works titled after anthems of protest, «Strange Fruit» and «Waltzing Matilda,» allude to the lynched and the drowned figure (respectively) through entangled forms of race and class struggle where the marked body is laid bare.

The tree, which has the graves of lynched victims around the base, features in the film, during a scene where two runaway slaves are hanged.

Just as an example, I know of 4 cases only in France where a public statement against IPCC recommendations and conclusions by a scientist had triggered open letters and hate propaganda of IPCC members, enviro advocay groups and AGW believers who virtually asked for public lynching of the heretic.

Of course there have been terrible crimes against members or suspected members of the LGBTQ community, and it might be fair to draw an analogy between some of those specific crimes, but not the American black civil rights struggle, not school segregation and bombing of churches, not the lynchings where in some places in the south any old tree may have been the site of a murder.