FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo2 days agoUS Rep. Al Green discusses Haiti crisis impact on Blacks in USdefendernetwork.com - Aswad WalkerWith the current crisis in Haiti, the island nation’s history of 200-plus years of gross economic abuse inflicted by France and the U.S. that robbed …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo2 days agoFreedom Monument Sculpture Park in Montgomery to honor victims of slaveryroute-fifty.com - Ralph ChapocoThis story is republished from the Alabama Reflector. Read the original article. The Equal Justice Initiative will soon open a third site in the …
AvatarUSA TODAYflipped into OnPoliticsAvatarAvatar3 days agoPrincess Kate diagnosed with cancer. What's next? | The Excerpt podcastverified_publisherUSA TODAY - Taylor WilsonOn Saturday’s episode of The Excerpt podcast: Princess Kate has been diagnosed with cancer. What's that mean for the Royal Family? Gunmen killed more than 60 in a Russia concert attack. USA TODAY National Correspondent Trevor Hughes looks at the politically charged climate around electric vehicles. …
AvatarVanity Fairflipped into Top StoriesAvatarAvatar1 day agoBryan Stevenson Says a Quest for “Historical Authenticity” Inspired the Freedom Monument Sculpture Parkverified_publisherVanity Fair - By Kia D. GoosbyA powerful new landscape of art in Montgomery, Alabama, aims to re-center American history on the enslaved and Indigenous people who lived through its brutality. Millions of people are already familiar with Bryan Stevenson for his work on the Equal Justice Initiative or his memoir, Just Mercy, which …
AvatarAl.comflipped into Al.com NewsFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoBeth Thames: From slavery to Jim Crow, Legacy Museum teaches lessonsal.com - Beth ThamesThis is an opinion column You’ll want to look away, but don’t. If you visit Montgomery’s Legacy Museum, conceived and created by the Equal Justice …
AvatarThe New Yorkerflipped into News & PoliticsAvatarAvatar4 days agoBryan Stevenson Reclaims the Monument, in the Heart of the Deep Southverified_publisherThe New Yorker - Doreen St. FélixThe civil-rights attorney has created a museum, a memorial, and, now, a sculpture park, indicting the city of Montgomery—a former capital of the domestic slave trade and the cradle of the Confederacy. The National Monument to Freedom, in Montgomery, Alabama, is a giant book, standing forty-three …
AvatarCox Media Groupflipped into WPXI-TV News PittsburghFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoSculpture park aims to look honestly at slavery, honoring those who endured itwpxi.com - KIM CHANDLER(AP) — Visitors to the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park wind a serpentine path past art pieces depicting the lives of enslaved people in America and …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoMar 19Judy Garland’s Ruby Slippers Head to Auction, Warhol Foundation Settles Copyright Dispute, Vienna Gets an Actionist Museum, and More: Morning Links for March 19, 2024artnews.com - The Editors of ARTnewsTHE HEADLINES WARHOL SETTLEMENT. The Andy Warhol Foundation and photographer Lynn Goldsmith have agreed to a settlement over a landmark copyright …
AvatarNBC Newsflipped into Nightly NewsAvatarAvatarFreedom Monument Sculpture Park Honors Lives of Enslaved People (Part 2)NBC News - NBCNews.comThe new Freedom Monument Sculpture Park honors the lives of 10 million Black people who were enslaved in America. The centerpiece of the sculpture park in Montgomery, Alabama is a wall engraved with 122,000 names that were adopted by newly emancipated slaves, during the 1870 census. Equal Justice …
AvatarW Magazineflipped into W MagazineAvatarAvatarA New Sculpture Park Reexamines Slavery’s Legacy in Americaverified_publisherW Magazine - by Julia HalperinBryan Stevenson, the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, has spent much of his career studying how slavery has shaped American life. But until …
AvatarUSA TODAYflipped into Top StoriesAvatarAvatarNew Alabama sculpture park, Black history museums are changing the way history is toldverified_publisherUSA TODAY - Deborah Barfield BerryMONTGOMERY, 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 labor. From the wide windows on the second floor of the International African American Museum in …
AvatarWRAL Newsflipped into WRAL News FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoCivil rights attorney questions what role race played in death penalty conviction of Johnston County manwral.comEsteemed civil rights attorney Bryan Stevenson took the stand in a Johnston County trial that could have implications for more than 100 inmates on …