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Bryan Stevenson Wants the U.S. to Face Its History
In the days leading up to Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Jaime L of the New York Times interviews Bryan Stevenson about incarceration, American history, and Dr. King. ” If we had done the work that we should have done…
Read MoreThe Worst Thing We’ve Ever Done Download
On the Media’s Brooke Gladstone talks to the Equal Justice Initiative’s Bryan Stevenson about what inspired him to create The Legacy Museum and memorial and to historian Sir Richard Evans about the denazification process in Germany after World War. To listen to…
Read MoreAmerica’s First Memorial to the Victims of Lynching
Kriston Capps’ article in the Atlantic describes Bryan Stevenson’s Equal Justice Initiative’s memorial due to open in 2018, “the first such memorial in the U.S., and, its founders hope, it will show how lynchings of black people were essential to…
Read MoreMemphis Students Unite Their Community 100 Years After A Lynching
One hundred years after his brutal lynching, Eli Persons was commemorated at a ceremony attended by 500 community members in Memphis (May 21, 2017) organized by a student-led activist group, Students Uniting Memphis (SUM) to bring awareness to this and other…
Read MoreLynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror
Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, narrates this powerful video that briefly illustrates the history of lynching of black people in the United States by white terrorists. Stevenson explains EJI’s project to memorialize the victims of these crimes…
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