Court quashes false indictment

On 12 July 2023, a judge in Albemarle county in the state of Virginia, USA quashed the false indictment of John Henry James, who was lynched by a mob in 1898. John Henry James was a Black man falsely accused of raping a white woman.

Read more via The Guardian here.

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