Marking History: Monuments to Malevolence 


A remarkable project is underway to memorialize the thousands of victims of lynching. The project is spearheaded by Bryan Stevenson of the Equal Justice Initiative.

It is a somber, almost hauntingly beautiful work of art and will list the names of the U.S.’s 4,000 lynching victims, as well as place historical markers (similar to the one pictured above) in each of the more than 800 counties across the country where the lynchings took place. Continue reading “Marking History: Monuments to Malevolence “

Dear Mr. Police Officer(s)…

100_0483My teen-aged son and I will be traveling by car from PA to NC today, and as fate would have it: we are both Black. We’re O.K. with that. We hope you are too.

There are a lot of things going on in our wonderful, albeit complicated, country right now that I know I do not have to explain. I see and read the news. And I know you do too.
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