James Lemarc “Byrdman” Byrd, 56, died on Jan. 26 at the Alfred D. Hughes Unit in Coryell County, according to a report from the Texas Attorney General’s Office. Byrd was found unconscious ...

A white supremacist convicted of killing James Byrd Jr in 1998 by dragging the 49-year-old black man behind a truck in one of the most notorious US hate crimes of modern times was executed in ...

Defense attorney James Byrd said he “respectfully” disagrees with the verdict. “Dispute as to whether my client was there and whether he was on the driver side or the passenger side.

In There Is No Soundtrack, Ming-Yuen S. Ma contends that contemporary media art challenges understandings of image and sound that privilege visuality.

She said that in the letter it said if she didn’t stay out of their business she would be “dragged like James Byrd.” Matthews believes this letter may have had something to do with her ...