Southern Maryland Holds Public Meetings on lynchings

Trees, over thousands of years of existence, have provided fruit and shade for human beings. And at some point, nature’s gift became a place for unnatural use. In the South, and other parts of the U.S., white people used trees as tools to lynch Black people. Recognizing this, Billie Holiday –  borrowing a poem from Abel Meeropol, who was Jewish and a teacher – testified about this unjust way of using creation.