Lynching Memorial Aims To Highlight Ongoing Racial Inequality
Lynching Memorial Aims To Highlight Ongoing Racial Inequality - Museums usually pay homage to the past, but this newly opened memorial and museum also takes a critical look at race relations today. Eight hundred steel columns are suspended from the ceiling — one for every U.S. county where a lynching took place. Engraved in them are 4,400 names of black ...