"The department conducted the trip in coordination with Alabama's Legacy Museum, which gathers soil from sites of racial terror to raise awareness of the history of slavery and honor the memory of those who were killed. The museum engraves jars with a name if known and a date and location to display them as a kind of burial rite."
"Department director Tony Walters said the trip fits with the scope of the office's mission for staff to engage in uncomfortable and sometimes painful conversation around discrimination and oppression to improve awareness and access to justice in the court system. Diversity, equity and inclusion is an access to justice issue, Walters said, And we feel like this man was not allowed any justice."
"One thing he's done is to hire Nicole Hylton, a special project coordinator who holds dual master's degrees in Pan-African studies and behavioral psychology, who he said has brought a degree of historical research to the programming. We're going a little bit deeper in the weeds, Walters said. Last year ODI held both an Antisemitism Today and its Roots, program for over 1,000 court employees, followed by a program entitled Honoring Our Shared Humanity: Understanding Islamophobia."
Officials from the state court system's Office of Diversity and Inclusion traveled to the site of a 1932 lynching in the Adirondack Mountains to memorialize the victim during a staff retreat. The trip was coordinated with Alabama's Legacy Museum, which collects soil from sites of racial terror and engraves jars with names, dates and locations as a burial rite. Department leadership framed the visit as part of a mission to confront discrimination and improve awareness and access to justice. The office has shifted from primarily recruitment goals to cultural awareness, hiring a historian-trained coordinator and presenting programs on antisemitism and Islamophobia to court employees.
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