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Bryan Stevenson discusses the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, which overlooks downtown Montgomery, Alabama, where more than eight hundred steel monuments hang, bearing the weight of over four thousand lynchings; and the Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration which chronicles the history and continued presence of racial violence in America. Opened in April, these two cultural sites were created by the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) under the leadership of Bryan Stevenson in order to rewrite, and set right, the narratives regarding the African American experience. EJI was founded in 1989 and has since advocated on behalf of the incarcerated and the wrongly convicted, defending and protecting those who are most vulnerable in our society. As Stevenson's 2014 book, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, adeptly recounts, each case he and EJI have taken on has revealed how pervasive inequality in our legal system serves only to amplify historical injustice. As Alabama celebrates its bicentennial, both the memorial and the museum proffer a future that could emerge if we choose to see our past more clearly.