Bryan Stevenson’s EJI Launches ‘Lynching in America’ Site With Google
The new site features exciting interactive elements for some very heavy data on racial terror in the United States.
Two years after its seminal report on the history of racial terror in the United States, the Equal Justice Initiative recently launched an interactive site, Lynching in America, in partnership with Google, which gave the organization $1 million grant to continue its important racial justice work.
The site brings together EJI’s extensive research and resulting data and includes the stories of lynching victims, as told by their descendants as well as incredible interactive maps that include the locations of racial terror lynchings and in-depth profiles of people and families whose lives were forever altered by these heinous acts of racial violence. (From the map I quickly found that Leflore County, which is where my grandparents were from in the Mississippi Delta, has the greatest number of those lynched in the country with 48 killed. No wonder they high tailed it out of there to Newark, New Jersey, in the 1940s).
“I don’t think slavery ended in 1865; I think it evolved,” says says EJI founder and executive director Bryan Stevenson. “We had mobs of thousands of people gathering in courthouse yards and fields and doing horrific things to people, and we haven’t done anything to acknowledge that. It is American history, and for us to recover from that violence and that terrorism, we all have to know it and we have to talk about it. I think it will compel us to think differently about what we need to do to correct the past, address the past, but also how we make a better future.”
He continues, “Google has been able to take what we know about lynching, and what we have heard from the families, and what we have seen in the spaces and the communities where these acts of terror took place, and make that knowledge accessible to a lot more people. To create a platform for hearing and understanding and seeing this world that we’ve lived through.”
EJI will open the Memorial to Peace and Justice, a national monument commemorating more than 4,000 African American victims of lynching, and will open a new museum, “From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration,” which will explore America’s legacy of slavery, racial terror, segregation, and mass incarceration next year.
Watch Uprooted, on one family’s story on lynching in Louisiana.
SOURCE: Equal Justice Initiative
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108 Black Men And Boys Killed By Police
108 Black Men And Boys Killed By Police
1. Matthew Williams, 35
1 of 1082. Daunte Wright, 20

3. Marvin D. Scott III, 26

4. Kurt Reinhold, 42

5. McHale Rose, 19
5 of 1086. Xzavier Hill, 18
Source:Change.org 6 of 1087. Frederick Cox, 18

8. Patrick Warren Sr.

9. Carl Dorsey III, 39
9 of 10810. Dolal Idd, 23

11. Andre' Hill, 47
11 of 10812. Joshua Feast
12 of 10813. Maurice Gordon

14. Casey Goodson Jr.

15. Rodney Applewhite

16. A.J. Crooms
16 of 10817. Sincere Pierce
17 of 10818. Walter Wallace Jr.
18 of 10819. Marcellis Stinnette, teen killed by police in Waukegan, Illinois

20. Jonathan Price
20 of 10821. Deon Kay
21 of 10822. Daniel Prude
22 of 10823. Damian Daniels
23 of 10824. Dijon Kizzee
24 of 10825. Trayford Pellerin

26. David McAtee
26 of 10827. Natosha “Tony” McDade
27 of 10828. George Floyd
28 of 10829. Yassin Mohamed
29 of 10830. Finan H. Berhe
30 of 10831. Sean Reed

32. Steven Demarco Taylor

33. Ariane McCree

34. Terrance Franklin
34 of 10835. Miles Hall

36. Darius Tarver

37. William Green
37 of 10838. Samuel David Mallard, 19
38 of 10839. Kwame "KK" Jones, 17

40. De’von Bailey, 19
40 of 10841. Christopher Whitfield, 31
41 of 10842. Anthony Hill, 26
42 of 10843. De'Von Bailey, 19
43 of 10844. Eric Logan, 54
44 of 10845. Jamarion Robinson, 26
45 of 10846. Gregory Hill Jr., 30
46 of 10847. JaQuavion Slaton, 20
47 of 10848. Ryan Twyman, 24
48 of 10849. Brandon Webber, 20
49 of 10850. Jimmy Atchison, 21
50 of 10851. Willie McCoy, 20
51 of 10852. Emantic "EJ" Fitzgerald Bradford Jr., 21
52 of 10853. D’ettrick Griffin, 18
53 of 10854. Jemel Roberson, 26
Source:false 54 of 10855. DeAndre Ballard, 23
Source:false 55 of 10856. Botham Shem Jean, 26
Source:false 56 of 10857. Antwon Rose Jr., 17
Source:false 57 of 10858. Robert Lawrence White, 41
Source:false 58 of 10859. Anthony Lamar Smith, 24

60. Ramarley Graham, 18

61. Manuel Loggins Jr., 31

62. Trayvon Martin, 17

63. Wendell Allen, 20

64. Kendrec McDade, 19

65. Larry Jackson Jr., 32

66. Jonathan Ferrell, 24

67. Jordan Baker, 26

68. Victor White lll, 22

69. Dontre Hamilton, 31

70. Eric Garner, 43

71. John Crawford lll, 22

72. Michael Brown, 18

73. Ezell Ford, 25

74. Dante Parker, 36

75. Kajieme Powell, 25

76. Laquan McDonald, 17

77. Akai Gurley, 28

78. Tamir Rice, 12

79. Rumain Brisbon, 34

80. Jerame Reid, 36

81. Charly Keunang, 43

82. Tony Robinson, 19

83. Walter Scott, 50

84. Freddie Gray, 25

85. Brendon Glenn, 29

86. Samuel DuBose, 43

87. Christian Taylor, 19

88. Jamar Clark, 24

89. Mario Woods, 26

90. Quintonio LeGrier, 19

91. Gregory Gunn, 58

92. Akiel Denkins, 24

93. Alton Sterling, 37

94. Philando Castile, 32

95. Terrence Sterling, 31

96. Terence Crutcher, 40

97. Keith Lamont Scott, 43

98. Alfred Olango, 38

99. Jordan Edwards, 15

100. Stephon Clark, 22
Source:false 100 of 108101. Danny Ray Thomas, 34
Source:false 101 of 108102. DeJuan Guillory, 27
Source:false 102 of 108103. Patrick Harmon, 50
103 of 108104. Jonathan Hart, 21
104 of 108105. Maurice Granton, 24
105 of 108106. Julius Johnson, 23
106 of 108107. Jamee Johnson, 22

108. Michael Dean, 28

108 Black Men And Boys Killed By Police
UPDATED: 7:15 p.m. ET, April 20, 2021 -- The centuries-old American tradition of police shooting and killing Black males suffered an untraditional jolt on Tuesday when former cop Derek Chauvin was found guilty and convicted on all counts for murdering George Floyd by kneeling on the unarmed, handcuffed man's neck for more than nine minutes. https://twitter.com/TIME/status/1384614198282530816?s=20 But the anomaly of a guilty verdict was far from enough to offset the apparent violent rite of police passage that is still thriving in 2021 and only seems to be gaining momentum instead of slowing. It should give any American citizen pause as a steady number of Black people -- especially males both young and old -- continue to be added to a growing list of victims with what seems like a new shooting every week. MORE: #SayHerName: Black Women And Girls Killed By Police Matthew Williams became the most recent Black male killed in an instance of preventable police violence when officers in Georgia said they shot him on April 12, 2021, because he had a knife. However, Williams' family rejects that narrative and has demanded the release of bodycam footage to verify police claims. [caption id="attachment_4139462" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Matthew Williams and his mother. | Source: Twitter[/caption] Williams died in his own home from the shooting. The lawyer re[resenting the family said the police are actively engaged in trying "to cover up killing a man in his own home." Local news outlet 11Alive reported that a witness said Williams was not armed with a knife when he was shot. One of Williams's five sisters said the police narrative is totally out of character for her brother. "My brother was not violent. My brother was not confrontational," Chyah Williams said. "He was the most caring, giving, selfless person you could ever meet." https://twitter.com/ArianaTriggs/status/1382444831910334464?s=20 Williams' killing came one day after a 20-year-old Black man named Daunte Wright was shot and killed during a traffic stop that centered on the number of air fresheners hanging from a car's rearview mirror. Williams and Wright join a long list of other Black men and boys killed by the police, including but certainly not limited to: Tamir Rice; Botham Shem Jean; E.J. Bradford; and Michael Brown. But two of the most recent names that can tragically be included in this deadly equation are Michael Dean, a 28-year-old father who police shot in the head on Dec. 3, 2019, and Jamee Johnson, a 22-year-old HBCU student who police shot to death after a questionable traffic stop on Dec. 14, 2019. One of the most distressing parts of this seemingly nonstop string of police killings of Black people is the fact that more times than not, the officer involved in the shooting can hide behind the claim that they feared for their lives -- even if the victim was shot in the back, as has become the case for so many deadly episodes involving law enforcement. In a handful of those cases -- such as Antwon Rose, a 13-year-old boy killed in Pittsburgh, and Stephon Clark, a 22-year-old killed in Sacramento, both of whom were unarmed -- the officers either avoided being criminally charged altogether or were acquitted despite damning evidence that the cops' lives were not threatened and there was no cause for them to resort to lethal force or any violence for that matter. Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who has been retained in so many of these cases, described the above scenarios in his new book, "Open Season," as the "genocide" of Black people. As NewsOne continues covering these shootings that so often go ignored by mainstream media, the below running list (in no certain order) of Black men and boys who have been shot and killed by police under suspicious circumstances can serve as a tragic reminder of the dangers Black and brown citizens face upon being born into a world of hate that has branded them as suspects since birth. Scroll down to learn more about the Black men and boys who have lost their lives to police violence.
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