AFRO Staff Writer
The Maryland Lynching Memorial Project (MLMP) was established in 2018 to document the state’s history of racial terror lynchings and call for the public acknowledgment of the brutal killings that were historically public spectacles. Since then, the organization has helped to identify 38 African Americans who were lynched in Maryland between 1854 and 1933. No one was ever held responsible for their deaths.
The MLMP’s truth-telling mission seeks to open the door to reconciliation and healing for not only the descendants of these victims but also the broader Black community.
“If there’s going to be justice, there has to be truth,” said Nicholas Creary, vice president of the MLMP. “It’s all about trying to create a better present and future, but we have to be able to use and access the past to create the future we want.”…