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"Lynching "was intended to terrorize communities of color, and that's why all black folks in these communities were victims," Stevenson said. "Sometimes they would leave the body hanging on a tree, and the family would come to claim it, and they wouldn't let them. It was the optic of this raised violence that made the threat, the menace even more powerful." Via cnn.com

A new lynching memorial rewrites American history A lynching memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, is opening in April. Created by Bryan Stevenson's Equal Justice Initiative, The National Memorial for Peace and Justice is paired with The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration.

"One of the essential experiences of war is never being able to escape from disgusting smells of human origin." Via Orwell Foundation

Looking Back on the Spanish War I First of all the physical memories, the sound, the smells and the surfaces of things. It is curious that more vividly than anything that came afterwards in the Spanish war I remember the week of …