murder sank in. it was the first time since at least the early 1900s that a white had been sentenced to death for a crime committed against a black person in the state of alabama. beulah mae donald is grieving, but also seeking justice for her child. this is a black woman who has just lost her son to lynching, finds the strength to move forward in a several suit against the klan in alabama. the stakes could not be higher. the body of a black man has been found hanging from a tree in mobile, alabama. lynching is a tool to control and oppress black people. racial violence is as old as the constitution. klans are not running around with white sheets over their head, but it s still happening. today people are horrified of the police. it is the modern day lynching. what are we going to do about it. we move forward with people deciding i m bold enough, and i m going to make it change. beulah mae donald took on one of the most violent criminal organizations in
The first Ku Klux Klan meeting in Northern New York that was open to the public began with a prayer. The main speaker then “brought forth a small, silk American
In 2020, Fresno City Council vowed to rename a baseball field bearing the name of the man who brought the Ku Klux Klan to California. Four years on, the community is still waiting.
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyA major city in California—marred by its history with the Ku Klux Klan—has stalled its efforts to change the title of a park that was named after an early 20th century white supremacist.Nearly four years after Fresno City Council passed a resolution to rename the John Euless Ballpark and review and potentially rename other city landmarks with associations to “cultural or historic figure[s] known to be racist or bigoted,” the park is s
The recent popularity of tulips in the national capital reminds one of the frenzy that the flower had once caused in Europe, in the Netherlands to be precise. Adrija Roychowdhury finds out more about the 17th century Dutch 'Tulipomania' and the role of a virus in it.