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CEE’s Catherine Coleman Flowers and Vice President Al Gore to speak at Summit opening the National Memorial for Peace & Justice

The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI)

National Memorial for Peace and Justice and the Legacy Museum:
From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration opens to the public with a Two-Day Summit, April 26-27, 2018.

Catherine Coleman Flowers, CEE Director of EJCE, will join Former Vice President Al Gore to talk about climate change and the crisis surrounding environmental justice across the globe as our planet is imperiled by radical shifts in climate and global warming. They will join acclaimed artists and speakers Michelle Alexander, Rev. William Barber, Gloria Steinam, Ava Duvernay, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Alvin Ailey II and others to mark the opening ceremony and week of events.

Inside the memorial to victims of lynching

Oprah Winfrey reports on the Alabama memorial dedicated to thousands of African-American men, women and children lynched over a 70-year period following the Civil War