The Legacy Museum is extraordinary. I think of it as the second museum in the EJI collection, but it was the first, smaller and less comprehensive, then expanded and relocated to the warehouse district on a site previously used for slave trading and incarceration. We walk on its history and breathe in its legacy. The […]

Key West. The Conch Republic. Cayo Hueso (Bone Key). Mile 0. Southernmost Point. How many more names are there for a place so small? Each resonant of a different spirit to say nothing of the lost local names for areas, some remaining as tourist destinations, Bahama Town, many just lost, Sears Town. I had visited […]

Maybe even more important for a Civil Rights experience than the Lorraine Motel, TN, or Jackson, MS, or possibly Greensboro, NC, is Selma, AL. Presidents Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Biden have walked the Edmund Pettus Bridge to celebrate the Civil Rights Act of 1965 and honor the marchers, including the late Representative John Lewis. I […]