January 23rd, 2019. Sen. Jennifer McClellan, D-Richmond, sponsored a Senate joint resolution asking the General Assembly to “acknowledge with profound regret the existence and acceptance of lynching within the Commonwealth and call for reconciliation among all Virginians.” As part of the resolution, the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Commission and the Department of Historic Resources together would pick sites for markers to document lynching, whose victims were primarily African-American. The identification of lynching victims will be based upon the Racial Terror website. You can read more in this article by the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
The Williamsburg Yorktown Daily has also interviewed Professor De Fazio about lynching in the Historic Triangle and the legacy of racial violence in the US South.