MONTGOMERY, Ala. ‒ From a wooden bench at the edge of the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park, visitors can see the Alabama River where enslaved Africans were transported and sold into a life of forced ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Thousands of surnames grace the towering monument, representing the more than 4 million enslaved people who were freed after the Civil War. The Equal Justice Initiative, a ...

While walking through the Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration, and then the National Memorial for Peace and Justice last month in Montgomery, Alabama, I couldn’t help but imagine how ...

Visitors to the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park wind a serpentine path past art pieces depicting the lives of enslaved people in America and historic exhibits, including two cabins where the enslaved ...

The Equal Justice Initiative, a criminal justice reform nonprofit, dedicated its National Monument to Freedom on June 19, 2024, in the new Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Montgomery, Alabama. The ...

The Legacy Sites in Montgomery will offer free admission to commemorate Juneteenth. On Wednesday, June 19, visitors will not have to purchase tickets to view exhibits at the Legacy Museum, the ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Thousands of surnames grace the towering monument, representing the more than 4 million enslaved people who were freed after the Civil War. The Equal Justice Initiative, a criminal ...

You’ll want to look away, but don’t. If you visit Montgomery’s Legacy Museum, conceived and created by the Equal Justice Initiative and its founder, lawyer Bryan Stevenson, you’ll come face to face ...

United States President Donald Trump has said the nation’s Smithsonian museums only discuss “horrible” topics, including “how ...

Bryan Stevenson, executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, stands before jars containing soil from the sites of confirmed lynchings of Black people. Mickey Welsh USA Today Network file photo ...

The theme of the United States National Slavery Museum: reconciliation, not recrimination. That's what L. Douglas Wilder, former governor of Virginia and present mayor of Richmond, stressed at ...