Some residents of Knightstown, Indiana, are retaliating after the cross on their town’s Christmas tree was taken down. A lawsuit, picked up by the ACLU, was filed after a resident said the cross ...

It was a sunny afternoon in downtown Portland, Maine, and a tree was lumbering across a crosswalk in front of the Portland Museum of Art, causing a traffic jam. It was, of course, performance art — ...

My great-grandfather was lynched. It was not a big affair in the town square; it happened on a dusty southern road. But its imprint and the communal denial in the small southern town that is our ...

James Cone’s seminal book gives a theological response to the dark history of lynchings in America. “Do two walk together unless they have agreed to do so?” This question from the prophet Amos is ...