James Yamakawa
SALISBURY, MD -- 1/14/22 -- James Yamakawa is co-founder of the Wicomico Truth and Reconciliation Commission and is a leading activist for social justice in Salisbury.
"This was as brutal an act of terrorism as one can imagine," he says of Matthew Williams' lynching. "It was designed to terrorize the entire Black community of Salisbury and Wicomico, and to tell them that you cannot step out of line or this will happen to you."â¦André Chung/ICTJ