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April 27, 2018

Editorial Board of Montgomery Advertiser Apologies for Past Coverage of Lynching
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And in Alabama, the editorial board of the Montgomery Advertiser
published a public apology for its previous coverage of lynching on
Thursday-the same day the National Memorial for Peace and Justice opened
in downtown Montgomery as a monument to victims of white supremacy in
the United States.

In the editorial, the board wrote "We take responsibility for our
proliferation of a false narrative regarding the treatment of
African-Americans in those disgraceful days.... We propagated a world
view rooted in racism and the sickening myth of racial superiority…We
must never be as wrong as this again."

The Montgomery Advertiser was among many white-owned newspapers across
the United States that failed investigate-and at times even
celebrated-the white mob violence that killed thousands of African
Americans throughout U.S. history. Instead, it was Black journalists,
mostly notably Ida B. Wells, who exposed the horrors of lynching to the
world.


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