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National Memorial for Peace and Justice
February 29, 2020 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice is a powerful art project based in Alabama that includes histories of lynching across the United States – please pass this news on to your friends. Next week OPB will present a story about the Memorial and what will follow next in the installation of the Art Project.
On Saturday, Feb. 29, at 10 a.m., a ceremony will be held in Coos Bay to commemorate the one documented lynching of a black man in Oregon. Fellow friends and artists Gina Wilson and Susan Webb will attend the collection of soil from the killing site that will be sent to the National Museum for Peace and Justice Center in Alabama. We won’t all be able to travel to Coos Bay, but we could take time out to acknowlege the harm done and the healing that could happen for all those whose land and lives were taken. You might want to stop -get connected, touch the Earth – Saturday in honoring this history and the power of ART to bring awareness, to open hearts, and to transform.
Next week OPB will present a story about the Memorial and what will follow next in the installation of the Art Project.
With compassion for all beings, shining the light,
Katie Radditz, of The Open Road
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The violence that’s now being memorialized erupted 118 years ago after a miner’s wife, a white woman, accused a black man of raping her near South Marshfield’s Seventh Street Bridge.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/
https://museumandmemorial.eji.
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Located on the site of a former warehouse where black people were enslaved in Montgomery, Alabama, this narrative museum uses interactive media, sculpture, videography and exhibits to immerse visitors in the sights and sounds of the domestic slave trade, racial terrorism, the Jim Crow South, and the world’s largest prison system.
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