Today marks the 26th anniversary of the death of James Byrd Jr. He was dragged to death behind a pickup truck by three white men on June 7, 1998, in Jasper, in one of the worst hate crimes in American ...

On the morning of her son’s 29th birthday party, LyVette Byrd woke up, and for the first time, she couldn’t see. LyVette Byrd: At first I didn’t know it. I just thought I was a little groggy. So I ...

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The documentary "Byrd: The Life and Tragic Death of James Byrd Jr." has been selected for inclusion in the 2009 Washington D.C. Independent Film Festival, according to a news release. "The Life and ...

To everything, there is a season, as The Byrds sang in 1965. Few people know this better than the band’s co-founder, David Crosby, who went on to the seminal American supergroups Crosby, Stills & Nash ...