A 17-year-old girl was arrested for helping a Waco man avoid arrest after he threatened several people with a machine gun and shot a police dog during a chase.

Sandra Bland, a 28-year-old African American woman, drove from her home in a Chicago suburb to Prairie View A&M (PVAM) University, her alma mater in rural southeast Texas, to begin a new job as a ...

Waco group works to shed light on lynching culture that once thrived in Central Texas BY Olivia Levada Waco UPDATED 12:14 PM CT Jul. 27, 2021 ...

Lynching and noose intimidation is a practice as old as America. And the recent attempted lynching of an 8-year-old in a New Hampshire town has sent shock waves across the country.

Culture Fort Worth’s Forgotten Lynching: In Search of Fred Rouse Retracing the steps of a Texan lynched in 1921 requires a trip through dark days in state history.

He points to the lynching of Jesse Washington in Waco, Texas, as, “one of the most spectacular lynchings in American history.” In 1916, the body of Lucy Fryer, a white woman, was found dead on ...

A marker honoring William Allen Taylor, a victim of a Dallas lynching at the Trinity River in 1884, is likely to be commemorated this year.

Texas History Inside the Decades-long Effort to Commemorate a Notorious Waco Lynching After years of opposition and delay, Waco has finally posted a historical marker about the 1916 murder of ...

WACO, Texas — Every city has a history and here at Waco City Hall is where one of the darkest moments in their story unfolded. “Who would want that to happen to a family member?" said Yolanda ...

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - More than 100 years after the lynching of a Black man in Waco local leaders want to make sure the community never forgets his name. On Saturday afternoon city officials and ...