Equal Justice Initiative

The first life-sized sculpture honoring Representative John Lewis has been unveiled in Alabama. The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) showcased the new display at Legacy Plaza in Montgomery, across from the Legacy Museum. The statue joins the sculptures of Rosa Parks and Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

A man who admitted to killing five people in 2016 has been executed by lethal injection in Alabama. Derrick Dearman was pronounced dead Thursday at Holman prison in southern Alabama.

Charles Person, one of the Civil Rights Movement's original Freedom Riders attacked in Alabama, echoed organizers across Georgia when he urged a group of Generation Z and millennial activists to encourage young people to vote.

A Montgomery nonprofit is observing Juneteenth by shining a light on the history and impact of slavery in Alabama. Juneteenth is a holiday that celebrates when enslaved Black people from Galveston, TX, were told they were free. The holiday is celebrated every June 19.

Visitors to a new outdoor space near Montgomery can learn about slavery through art. The Equal Justice Initiative’s Freedom Monument Sculpture Park covers seventeen acres along the Alabama River.

The history of slavery in America is the focus of a new sculpture park in Montgomery, Alabama. The Freedom Monument Sculpture Park honors the millions of people who endured slavery's brutality. The park opening March 27 is the third site created by the Equal Justice Initiative, which is dedicated to taking an unflinching look at the nation's history.

The Equal Justice Initiative has unveiled a new statue honoring civil rights legend Rosa Parks at Legacy Plaza, across from the Legacy Museum in downtown Montgomery.The sculpture of Mrs. Parks is the first of three statues that will be erected in Legacy Plaza in the coming months.

James Barber will be Alabama’s first death row inmate set for execution since last year.

Alabama voters head to the polls for the November midterm election next month. One issue on the ballot would do away with slavery. It’s still allowed in the state constitution. Alabama Public Radio news spent nine months looking into one lingering aspect of the slave trade. APR’s focus is on finding and preserving slave cemeteries in the state. By the time of the Civil War, an estimated four hundred thousand people were held as slaves in Alabama. Some accounts put the number throughout the South at closer to four million. That would appear to make the issue of slave cemetery preservation a southern issue. But, that doesn't appear to be the case.

The Equal Justice Initiative is moving and expanding its memorial dedicated to U.S. lynching victims. The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass…