The National Memorial for Peace and Justice opened in Montgomery, Alabama on April 26th. Also referred to as the “National Lynching Memorial”, it commemorates 4,400 victims of racial terror lynching in the United States. Founded by the Equal Justice Initiative and funded by private donations, the memorial is located on a former slave market and features 805 hanging steel coffin-like rectangles, each representing a US county where lynchings occurred. Surrounding the main structure are sculptures referencing episodes in African-American history: slavery, the Civil Rights movement, police violence...