Sentences with phrase «lynching memorial»

The project, which has been promoted as a lynching memorial, emphasizes the through line from slavery to current discrimination and racial bias.

The Equal Justice Initiative's lynching memorial and legacy museum, documenting slavery to mass incarceration, open April 26 in Montgomery, Ala. Video by Equal Justice Initiative

Watch Oprah Winfrey's 60 Minutes segment on the lynching memorial

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And that's why these cultural projects — our museum, our memorial, our reports on slavery and lynching and segregation — are real priorities.

Again, as in Dogville, set to David Bowie's «Young Americans,» it's a condensed, horrific view of American history: black - and - white stills of lynchings; color shots of abject poverty; smiling bigots and neo-Nazis; the Civil Rights clashes of the 1960s; stockpiles of firearms; the intact Twin Towers; young soldiers in Vietnam; Martin Luther King, Jr. in his coffin; the dead Malcolm X on a stretcher; and finally, a black man push - brooming the marble crags of the Lincoln Memorial.

Learn more about the memorial and EJI's Research on lynching.

The exhibition also features EJI's plans to open a national monument in 2018 in Montgomery, Alabama, named The Memorial to Peace and Justice, commemorating victims of racial terror lynching.

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Similar to Holocaust memorials in Germany or the Apartheid museum in South Africa,» The Legacy of Lynching memorializes victims and their families, while challenging complacency in the face of injustice.

Next spring EJI will open a six - acre memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, to honor the lives of more than 4,000 African - American lynched from 1877 to 1950 — whose names will be engraved on a series of columns.

This week, highlights include plans for a memorial to lynching victims in Montgomery, Ala.; expansion of Alvin Ailey Dance Theater's New York headquarters; and news that an outdoor installation of whimsically painted abandoned homes in Detroit will be dismantled.

A preview of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, a memorial to lynching that the Equal Justice Initiative is building on six acres it purchased overlooking the city of Montgomery, Ala. VideMemorial for Peace and Justice, a memorial to lynching that the Equal Justice Initiative is building on six acres it purchased overlooking the city of Montgomery, Ala. Vidememorial to lynching that the Equal Justice Initiative is building on six acres it purchased overlooking the city of Montgomery, Ala. Video by EJI

Envisioned by EJI, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Ala., the first memorial to lynching, includes a new museum devoted to the legacy of Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Ala., the first memorial to lynching, includes a new museum devoted to the legacy of memorial to lynching, includes a new museum devoted to the legacy of slavery.

The UK Guardian reported: «Speaking at the opening of a new national memorial and museum chronicling America's history of lynching and racial violence in Montgomery, Alabama, Gore said that the US could expect to see many more major disasters of the ilk of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria last summer.

-- «Speaking at a memorial to the victims of lynching, the former vice-president warned of the disproportionate impacts of global warming»

Gore in 2018: «Speaking at a memorial to the victims of lynching, the former vice-president warned of the disproportionate impacts of global warming»