Civil rights group documents 70 "modern-day lynchings" across 7 states

A new civil rights report argues that lynchings of Black men didn't end in America — they evolved — and that some deaths today may still be misclassified as suicides or accidents. The big picture: If killings are misclassified, families can lose their paths to justice, and possible patterns of racial violence can remain hidden in plain sight. Driving the news: Mississippi-based civil rights group JULIAN identified 70 "modern-day lynchings" in seven southern states from 2000 to 2025 in a report