Why are truth and reconciliation necessary goals for any racial democracy? Learn about the one documented lynching in New Jersey of Samuel “Mingo Jack” Johnson. Our next session of Continuing Conversations on Race and White Privilege at 6:30pm (please note earlier-than-usual…
Read MoreThe “True Justice” screening and discussion is part of the celebration of the African American Read-In, which features the texts, talks, and discussions by and about African American authors and serve as a way to recognize and amplify their work.
Read MoreIn 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 MoreOn 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 MoreKriston 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…
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