Warren Powell is one of at least 35 African American victims of “racial terror lynching” in Fulton County between 1877 and 1950, according to research by the Equal Justice Initiative. Statewide, the EJI documents 595 lynching motivated by racial animus in that same period. Now, community groups across Georgia are remembering the Black life, like Powell’s, taken by historical acts of racial violence.
Language for a lynching memorial to be erected in DeKalb County was approved Tuesday by county commissioners. In January, commissioners voted to place a...
Today on the show, we explored the history of voter suppression and lynching victims in Georgia. We also heard from filmmakers and organizers from the...
