Equal Justice Initiative’s Stevenson, Tuscaloosa County Install Historical Marker To Bring Healing
By Donna Cope
It is time to change the narrative, and to right the painful wrongs of the past, Bryan Stevenson says.
On Monday, March 6, Stevenson joined community leaders in Tuscaloosa in unveiling a historical marker that memorializes eight known victims of lynching in Tuscaloosa County. In a moment both somber and joyous, a crowd of about 150 spectators watched Stevenson remove a dark blue drape from the marker.
“We are doing something important and memorable today,” said Stevenson, founder and executive director of the nonprofit Equal Justice Initiative (EJI). “I hope this will have reverberations throughout the community and this state. We’ve got to start talking about how we change the narrative.“We’re still living in a time where there’s this narrative of racial differences,” he said.
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