by lindaoppenheim | Jul 1, 2018 | Article, Podcast
Anne Branigin reports that the three African American Senators “Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Tim Scott (R-S.C.), introduced a bill Friday that would make lynching a federal hate crime. The bill is similar to one introduced earlier this...
by lindaoppenheim | Jun 3, 2018 | Podcast
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...
by lindaoppenheim | May 5, 2018 | Article, Truth and Reconciliation
The book Karen Branan, a white journalist from Georgia, wrote about a 1912 lynching in Georgia, in which her family members participated, was read by Jackie Jordan Irvine, an black Alabama native and a professor emeritus of urban education at Emory University, who...
by lindaoppenheim | Jan 4, 2018 | Opinion
Following news of Erica Garner’s death, Kahana Cauley’s op ed in the New York Times provides numerous examples–from slavery, lynching, imprisonment, and the child protection system–of how the white supremacist system that governs the United...
by lindaoppenheim | Nov 10, 2017 | Article
Fighting for their country in virtually every war in which the United States was involved did not protect African American veterans once they returned home. The Equal Justice Initiative has produced a history of African American participation in the military and the...
