Lynchings: 2014-2018

Prison Project I © Jill Littlewood

Prison Project I © Jill Littlewood

“How do YOU define lynching?

A rope. A Black body. A sword. A Black body. A bag of Skittles. A Black body.

A torched Black body. A bombed Black body. A bullet-riddled Black body.

If a Black body falls in a forest and no one but the killer is around to hear it fall, does that Black body make a sound?”
 
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BEN KEITA
BEN KEITA

In January 2017, Ben Keita, 18, Muslim, was found hanging from a tree in Lake Stevens, Washington.

Will Sims
Will Sims

A musician, beaten and shot to death by three white supremacists, November 12, 2016, in El Sobrante, CA.

Timothy Caughman
Timothy Caughman

A recycler, stabbed with a sword by a white supremacist in New York, March 2017.

Kendra Shanice Reid
Kendra Shanice Reid

20-year-old, Winston-Salem State University student found hanging in Finch Park near Lexington, NC on April 28, 2017.

Richard Collins III
Richard Collins III

A veteran, stabbed by a white supremacist on the Bowie State, University of Maryland campus, May 20, 2017.

Tee Tee Dangerfield
Tee Tee Dangerfield

Found dead from multiple gunshot wounds July 31, 2017, in College Park, Georgia. 13th Black transgender woman murdered in 2017.

Kiwi Herring
Kiwi Herring

Married mother of three boys - ages 4, 7 and 8 - shot and killed by police in St. Louis, MO., August 22, 2017; 18th transgender person killed this year, nearly all of them, Black.

Ramon Smith and Jarron Moreland
Ramon Smith and Jarron Moreland

A modern day lynching. Two young Black men, abducted from a grocery store parking lot April 14, 2018, in Moore, Oklahoma. Shot. Killed. Stripped naked. Clothes burned. Taken to a pond where their bodies were tied to cinder blocks.

STILL KILLING US AND GETTING AWAY WITH IT