The black community in Greenwood, Miss., is on edge and angry after the death of Frederick Jermaine Carter (pictured) who was 26 years old and found hanging from a tree in what authorities have labeled to be a suicide.

"Since the brutal repression of nationwide dissent following the 2009 elections, authorities are now increasing their crackdown on Kurds.

Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, has also been sentenced to 99 lashes for a photo published of her without a headscarf, according to her son.

An Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning was subjected to a mock execution by hanging. In preparation for her death, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani wrote her will and embraced her cellmates in Tabriz prison.

Earlier Thursday, one of Ashtiani's lawyers told the International Committee Against Stoning that Iranian authorities have decided to go forward with Ashtiani's execution. The lawyer told the group that no more appeals will be allowed.

Seventy-five years have passed, but every time James Bradley drives by a section of Davie Boulevard he ponders an event that, though rarely recalled, still casts a dark shadow on Fort Lauderdale's history: the lynching of Reuben Stacey.

"When you see footage such as this, with anti-regime Iranian protesters losing any concern about their own safety, it's hard to imagine the current leadership hanging on.