MD State Delegate Joseline Peña-Melnyk (D, 21st) was the lead sponsor of HB 307, the legislation that created the Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission. She will discuss the backstory of how the bill was passed in a free, public address in the Ella Fitzgerald Performing Arts Center on the campus of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES). The talk has been arranged by Dr. Marshall Stevenson, Jr., Dean of the School of Education, Social Sciences and the Arts. Dr. Stevenson represents UMES on the Commission.

UMES is located in Princess Anne where George Armwood was lynched in 1933. It is the last known lynching to have occurred in Maryland.