Historic Marker in Montgomery. A statue/bust of Dr. King is to be unveiled on Monday at the church he led on Dexter Avenue. The New York Times Magazine talked with Stevenson about Alabama celebrating both Martin Luther King and Robert E. Lee on the same day this Monday. “You live in Montgomery, Ala., where both Confederate Memorial Day and Jefferson…
Watch the CBS 60 Minutes segment about the soon to open Lynching Memorial HERE. The memorial opens on April 26th. More information HERE. And tomorrow—Monday morning at 8:00 AM—on CBS This Morning, watch a story about the companion museum being constructed inside the Equal Justice Initiative headquarters building in Downtown Montgomery. Categories: Montgomery Metro, Statewide Tags: concert, Equal Justice…
Photo: Equal Justice Initiative The Equal Justice Initiative has announced that several music stars will be coming to Montgomery to perform as part of the celebration of the opening of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice and the Legacy Museum next month. The Concert for Peace and Justice will be on Friday, April 27 at 7:30 p.m. at Riverwalk Amphitheater…
We now know the opening date for the highly anticipated National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery. The Equal Justice Initiative tells Alabama News Network the memorial will open April 26th of next year. Just blocks away from Five Points and Cottage Hill the National Memorial for Peace and Justice is starting to take shape. The memorial will acknowledge…
Lawmakers moved a step closer to passing legislation that would prohibit judges from imposing a death sentence when a jury has recommended life imprisonment. The House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday approved a bill that had already cleared the Alabama Senate. Alabama is the only state that allows a judge to override a jury’s sentence recommendation in capital murder cases The…
The Equal Justice Initiative will announce their plans today to build a multi-million dollar memorial to victims of lynching across the country, and a museum in their building on Commerce Street. The memorial honors hundreds of people lynched by mobs in the U.S. in the decades following the civil war. It will be built on a six-acre site behind the…
