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A nearly 70-year-old newspaper clipping about infamous "Martinsville Seven" rape case shows the seven Black men convicted of raping a white woman. They were executed in 1951 after exhausting their ...
Newly obtained surveillance video reveals the chilling moment a seven-year-old boy was abducted at gunpoint in a Milwaukee neighborhood — while his father ran into the house, allegedly leaving his son ...
A show that likes its references, here's the best Easter Eggs that cropped up in Season Seven of Black Mirror.
A group of Black men known as the “Martinsville Seven” were posthumously pardoned Tuesday, 70 years after their 1951 execution for the alleged rape of a white woman.
On Aug. 31, Northam issued posthumous pardons to the Martinsville Seven — a group of Black men who were convicted of rape by all-White juries and executed in 1951.
The seven Black men were executed 70 years ago for the rape of a white woman in Martinsville and were granted posthumous pardons by Gov. Ralph Northam acknowledging they were denied due process of ...
A family can celebrate the return of seven-year-old Jamal White, who was kidnapped at gunpoint by an unknown man on Friday, July 11, in Milwaukee. Footage captured on a neighbor’s doorbell showed that ...
All seven of the men were tried by all-white juries. From 1908 to 1951, 45 people executed for rape, which was then a capital offense, by electric chair were Black, according to the AP.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam granted posthumous pardons to the "Martinsville Seven" — seven Black men who were executed in 1951 for the rape of a white woman.
Black Mirror season seven has arrived on Netflix and fans may have noticed it is full of Easter Eggs from the Netflix dystopian drama's hsitory.
“Here in 1949, six all-white, all-male juries convicted seven Black men of the rape of a white woman. All seven men were sentenced to death.