Equal Justice Initiative

James Barber will be Alabama’s first death row inmate set for execution since last year.

Alabama voters head to the polls for the November midterm election next month. One issue on the ballot would do away with slavery. It’s still allowed in the state constitution. Alabama Public Radio news spent nine months looking into one lingering aspect of the slave trade. APR’s focus is on finding and preserving slave cemeteries in the state. By the time of the Civil War, an estimated four hundred thousand people were held as slaves in Alabama. Some accounts put the number throughout the South at closer to four million. That would appear to make the issue of slave cemetery preservation a southern issue. But, that doesn't appear to be the case.

The Equal Justice Initiative is moving and expanding its memorial dedicated to U.S. lynching victims. The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass…

ELKMONT, Ala. (AP) — A 15-year-old boy charged with killing five members of his family, including three younger siblings, is being charged as an adult.…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — There's a new way to see the national lynching memorial in Montgomery, Alabama. The memorial this week will begin opening to…

An organization that founded the nation’s first memorial to lynching victims has announced that it has documented thousands of additional killings of…

“Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption” Author: Bryan Stevenson Publisher: Spiegel & Grau Pages: 336 Price: $28.00 (Hardcover) I am embarrassed to…

The nation's first memorial to lynching victims is expanding. The Equal Justice Initiative on Saturday opened a new welcome center and exhibition space…

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Willie Edwards Jr., a black truck driver, was killed by Ku Klux Klansmen who forced him to jump off a bridge in Alabama in 1957.…

(MONTGOMERY, AL)-- An Alabama Attorney will be the focus of a documentary on HBO. Bryan Stevenson is the Alabama attorney who founded the Equal Justice…