A Prayer for an End to Mass Incarceration

You may also want to read

They Will Not Be Forgotten: The Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice

By Kimberlee A Johnson

They were lynched. Mutilated. Dragged, dismembered, drowned. Strangled, stabbed, shot. They were beaten, burned, hanged. And they will not be forgotten.

Thanks to the vision, research, and hard work of the Equal Justice Initiative and its founder Bryan Stevenson, thousands of African American people whose lives were tragically ended as a result of racial terrorism will be remembered.

A Prayer for Darkness

By Kenji Kuramitsu

Originally published June 3, 2020

A Booklet of Uncommon Prayer, from which this prayer is taken, is now available electronically!