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“I’m really proud that we have made Montgomery, Alabama, arguably the most truthful space in America when it comes to confronting the legacy of slavery and the legacy of lynching,” Stevenson says
Since 2021, the Eastern Kentucky Remembrance Project has been planting markers memorializing Black residents killed by racist violence. On 31 May, a historical marker was placed outside the former Wayland jail where Fred Shannon was killed in 1924.
The Cold Case Unit of the DoJ has issued a report on the 1921 Tulsa race massacre. The report contains new information that "shows that the massacre was the result not of uncontrolled mob violence, but of a coordinated, military-style attack."
Freedom Monument Sculpture Park and the National Monument to Freedom honor all those who were enslaved in the U.S. and their descendants alive today
Jennings and other prisoners say reading is therapy for them, but a hostile bureaucracy often makes access to books and other reading materials difficult.
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Virginia abolished the death penalty on March 24, 2021, making it the 23rd state to do so. The decline of the death penalty in America continues. Learn more about work at https://eji.org/death-penalty/
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EJI's Reconstruction in America report (http://eji.org/reconstruction) documents nearly 2,000 more confirmed racial terror lynchings of Black people in America than previously detailed during 1865-1877. The legacy of lynching is evident in racially motivated violence that continues today. Read more.
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