(Here’s the sign-up, if you don’t already get California Today by email.) It’s Monday, and the news over the weekend was dominated by the horrifying violence in New Zealand. Recently, my colleague Simon Romero wrote about new efforts to remember the lynchings of people of Mexican descent throughout the American West. He wrote about such killings that took place in California:An Anglo mob in Bakersfield went on a killing spree in 1877. About 100 men, some wielding axes, broke into the county courthouse and overpowered the jailer.

Source: New York Times March 18, 2019 13:16 UTC