by lindaoppenheim | Apr 11, 2022 | Article
Following World War I, efforts to form a new union, the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America led to one of the worst incidents of racial violence initiated by whites against black sharecroppers according to a just released report from the Equal Justice...
by lindaoppenheim | Jul 1, 2018 | Article, Podcast
Anne Branigin reports that the three African American Senators “Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Tim Scott (R-S.C.), introduced a bill Friday that would make lynching a federal hate crime. The bill is similar to one introduced earlier this...
by lindaoppenheim | Dec 26, 2017 | Documents
At a time when a more informed discussion of our nation’s history of racial inequality is clearly needed, EJI is pleased to announce this year’s calendar, which contains facts and images about our history that are not well known but are critically...
by lindaoppenheim | Nov 10, 2017 | Article
Fighting for their country in virtually every war in which the United States was involved did not protect African American veterans once they returned home. The Equal Justice Initiative has produced a history of African American participation in the military and the...
by lindaoppenheim | Oct 9, 2017 | Article, Truth and Reconciliation, Website
Kriston Capps’ article in the Atlantic describes Bryan Stevenson’s Equal Justice Initiative’s memorial due to open in 2018, “the first such memorial in the U.S., and, its founders hope, it will show how lynchings of black people were essential...
