{p}After Byrd’s death, the Byrd Foundation for Racial Healing was created to bring attention to the impact of racial hatred. (PHOTO: Mark Felix for The Texas Tribune){/p} JASPER — On a spring ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- The man sentenced to death for one of the most gruesome murders in modern American history showed no remorse before his execution. John William King was executed by the Texas ...

On Wednesday evening around 6 p.m., Louvon Harris will be in Huntsville, Texas, about 70 miles north of Houston, for an appointment. She will sit and listen to the words, if any, from the man who ...

A new law that makes lynching a federal hate crime addresses an atrocity that continues to this day. By Charles M. Blow Their criticisms were read aloud in their absence during a ceremony at the ...

Following the horrific death of James Byrd in Jasper, Texas, in 1998, the city tried its best to remake its public image. However, according to the Washington Post, the racist environment that allowed ...