The National Memorial for Peace and Justice (artist rendering), which commemorates 4,400 lynching victims, opens this month in Montgomery, Alabama. It was created by the Equal Justice Initiative.

Black lawmakers have to work with a system that has no interest in honoring our real past, one that forces terrible choices ...

Specifically, he is working to remove the county from the National Lynching Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama. According to an interactive map, over 500 lynchings happened in the state of Georgia.

When I was 17 years old, I visited Montgomery, Alabama — less than a three-hour drive from my hometown of Atlanta, Georgia. For a class trip, we visited the nation’s only lynching memorial, the ...

Mar 3, 2023 Mar 3, 2023 Updated Apr 11, 2024 A newly-established group wants to see a lynching memorial become part of the plans for a new Smith County courthouse in downtown Tyler. In May 1909 ...

The National Memorial for Peace and Justice ... The soil collected from the sites of lynching in Alabama are displayed in glass jars in the Equal Justice Initiative’s Legacy Museum in Montgomery, ...

Like those rusty columns at the lynching memorial, the past lays before us: hard. Heavy. Difficult to grasp. All too often, Alabama chooses to stick with the fantasy. And trample the stark and ...