Maryland today has a unique and historic opportunity. It alone, among all states, has made a deliberate decision to confront its dark history of racial terror lynching. Even before the wave of protests touched off by the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and others, Maryland was positioning itself for this reckoning. In 2019 the state legislature unanimously passed an act creating the Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission (MLTRC), the first and only one of its kind in the country.

The Commission is tasked to:

• learn the truth about the 40 known racial terror lynchings in the state
• assess the damage these unsolved murders continue to wreak
• make recommendations for addressing the legacy of lynching
• begin to imagine what a project of racial reconciliation might look like

Join the International Center for Transitional Justice,  the Reginald F. Lewis Museum  and the Maryland Lynching Memorial Project for an online virtual forum to explore how the tools and techniques of transitional justice can support truth and reconciliation efforts in the state and set an example for the nation.

Panelists include:

• Dr. Kelebogile Zvobgo, founder and Director of the International Justice Lab at
  William & Mary
• Dr. Nicholas Creary, Associate Provost of Academic Inclusion and Innovation at Moravian College and MLTRC Commissioner
• Virginie Ladisch, Senior Expert, ICTJ
• Terri Freeman, Executive Director, Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture
• Clory Jackson, Founder of the Brownsville Project and the Allegany County Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Committee (ACLTRC)

Click HERE to Register.