Presbyterian Mission Agency lynching Archives

Support Justice in Policing Act, PC(USA) Washington office says

Posted June 16th, 2020

Calling it “a step toward transforming policing in America,” the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Office of Public Witness in Washington, D.C., is urging support of the Justice in Policing Act of 2020.

National Council of Churches ‘deeply disturbed’ by acts of violence against unarmed African Americans

Posted May 8th, 2020

The National Council of Churches (NCC) is grieved and deeply disturbed by the acts of violence that have been perpetrated against two unarmed African American men reported this week, even as most of the nation has remained at home sheltering in place. These incidents have reinforced the urgent need for us to address racism and white supremacy. The evil that results from racial hatred is exactly this: Black bodies lying dead in the streets.

Service remembers Wyatt Outlaw, victim of 1870 lynching in N.C.

Posted February 27th, 2017

It happened in Graham, the seat of Alamance County, on February 26, 1870. A racially charged crowd hung Wyatt Outlaw from a tree until his last breath. None of the hooded men involved in the lynching of the former slave, who was then serving on the Graham Town Commission, would ever serve prison time.