{"id":358693,"date":"2018-04-27T21:51:14","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T20:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/new-social-justice-museum-aims-to-punish-white-america-for-its-past\/"},"modified":"2018-04-27T21:51:14","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T20:51:14","slug":"new-social-justice-museum-aims-to-punish-white-america-for-its-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/new-social-justice-museum-aims-to-punish-white-america-for-its-past\/","title":{"rendered":"New Social Justice Museum Aims to Punish White America for Its \u2018Past\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, which opens to the public in Montgomery, Ala., on Thursday, is the nation\u2019s first memorial dedicated to enslaved black people, the victims of lynching, racial segregation and Jim Crow laws.<\/p>\n<p>The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), a Montgomery nonprofit that focuses on racial injustice and criminal justice reform and works to help marginalized communities, is responsible for bringing the memorial to fruition, The New York Times reports. EJI founder Bryan Stevenson told the paper that the idea for the memorial was inspired by the fact that nothing like it existed\u2014despite the thousands of black people who died during decades of racial terror in America.<\/p>\n<p>The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, which opens to the public in Montgomery, Ala., on Thursday, is the nation\u2019s first memorial dedicated to enslaved black people, the victims of lynching, racial segregation and Jim Crow laws.<\/p>\n<p>The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), a Montgomery nonprofit that focuses on racial injustice and criminal justice reform and works to help marginalized communities, is responsible for bringing the memorial to fruition, The New York Times reports. EJI founder Bryan Stevenson told the paper that the idea for the memorial was inspired by the fact that nothing like it existed\u2014despite the thousands of black people who died during decades of racial terror in America.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur nation\u2019s history of racial injustice casts a shadow across the American&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/new-social-justice-museum-aims-to-punish-white-america-for-its-past\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, which opens to the public in Montgomery, Ala., on Thursday, is the nation\u2019s first memorial dedicated to enslaved black people, the victims of lynching, racial segregation and Jim Crow laws. The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), a Montgomery nonprofit that focuses on racial injustice and criminal justice reform and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-358693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}