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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Oct 1, 2021

The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) is expanding its Alabama-based Legacy Museum, which focuses on the legacy of slavery in America. The museum, a companion to the group’s well-known memorial to lynching victims, opens today and includes exhibits about the eras of enslavement, lynching and Jim Crow laws, to mass incarceration and modern criminal justice issues that EJI's legal work focuses on. Bryan Stevenson, executive director of EJI and author of Just Mercy, says the goal of the museum is to teach and confront “parts of American history that are not frequently taught," an understanding he says is necessary for the country to move forward and heal. WRCB has more from the Associated Press.