Bryan Stevenson

The civil-rights attorney has created a sculpture park, indicting the city of Montgomery—a former capital of the domestic slave trade.

The Legacy Museum lands at a time when racial violence is on the rise and critical race theory is used to prevent America’s racist past being taught in schools.

In a region where symbols of the Confederacy are ubiquitous, an unprecedented memorial takes shape.

Stephen Bright and Bryan Stevenson defended the abolition of capital punishment at a moment when political support for that movement reached its nadir.

In Maryland, a memorial for two lynching victims reveals how America is grappling with its history of racial terror.

While lynching is most closely associated with former Confederate states, hundreds were committed elsewhere in the country.

Cynthia Tucker returns to her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama – also the hometown of Harper Lee, and the site of 17 lynchings.

A new digital exhibit confronts the legacy of racial terror.

The susceptibility of black ex-soldiers to extrajudicial murder and assault has long been recognized by historians.

Leaders in the 20th-century South faced violence and death for promoting voting rights; systemic failure enabled their killers to go unpunished.

The Supreme Court doesn't have the last word; the people do. How attorneys pushed back on the flawed 1987 McCleskey decision.

The nation's historical markers delight, distort and, sometimes, just get the story wrong.

The ambitious Times endeavor reveals the difficulties that greet a journalistic project when it aspires to shift a founding narrative of the past.

News outlets have apologized for past racism. That should only be the start.

Susan Neiman, a philosopher who studies Germany’s confrontation with its Nazi past, examines how the United States can remember slavery and segregation.

Six decades ago, Gordon Parks, Life magazine’s first black photographer, revolutionized what a crime photo could look like.

A historian looks back at the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow in her home state.

History bleeds in Montgomery, Alabama.

History haunts, but Alabama changes.

A year-long series of photographs and stories that explain the struggle between the old South and the new.