In this presentation Geoff Ward discusses efforts of Community Remembrance Projects across the U.S. and here in MO working with Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) to address legacies of lynching. He will briefly discuss the large body of social science research showing how histories of lynching contribute to enduring patterns of conflict, violence, and inequality, in part through their distortions of the moral universe and corruption of the rule of law. Community Remembrance efforts aim to leverage the “power of us” to repair these harms, elevating the plane of civil and human rights in places where it was degraded by histories of lynching. The St. Louis Community Remembrance Project is unveiling St. Louis’ first EJI historical marker Oct. 18 in Buder Park and will next turn its attention to installing a second marker commemorating the 1836 lynching of Francis McIntosh in downtown St. Louis. Members of the Ethical Society of St. Louis have been involved in our local efforts since their inception, and all are welcome to join.