It's a sad and appalling fact that children were routinely beaten and abused while in custody at Florida's old training schools for juvenile offenders. ...more

December 15, 2008

Federal and state agents swarmed the backyard of a modest white house along a windy stretch in rural northeast Georgia this week in search of clues that could be linked to living suspects involved in the 1946 unsolved lynchings of four people. ...more

July 3, 2008

When my friends and I were bored in high school, we entertained ourselves with the word game Hangman. ...more

February 24, 2008

Bob Devin Jones' portrayal of Harry T. Moore, civil-rights activist, executive director of the NAACP of Florida and generally considered America's first civil-rights martyr, attracted more than 40 local residents Jan. 13 to the Brandon Regional Library. ...more

January 30, 2008

In the months since nooses dangling from a schoolyard tree raised racial tensions in Jena, La., the frightening symbol of segregation-era lynchings has been turning up across the country. ...more

October 11, 2007