Bryan Stevenson and Michelle Alexander on Injustice
Bill and two prominent civil rights attorneys talk about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s vision for economic justice. Continue reading The post Bryan Stevenson and Michelle Alexander on Injustice...
View ArticleBryan Stevenson on the True Costs of Mass Incarceration
The lawyer behind the Supreme Court victory outlawing mandatory life imprisonment of minors explains how age and race influence criminal justice. Continue reading The post Bryan Stevenson on the True...
View Article“Wealth, Not Culpability, Shapes Outcomes” in Court
In a 2012 TED talk — which has been viewed over a million times — this week’s guest, lawyer Bryan Stevenson, talks about the hard truths of America’s unequal justice system, the incredible...
View ArticleWhere are Ordinary Black Youth in Pop Culture?
While it’s a great testament to our nation’s progress to have stories about Will Smith’s talented kids and Obama’s smart girls, we need to make “ordinary” black kids a commonplace as well. Continue...
View ArticleThe Link Between Mass Incarceration and Voter Turnout
A new study contends that the percentage of black males who voted is even higher than the Census reported. Voter turnout figures look a lot different when you take felony convictions into account....
View Article“Slavery to Mass Incarceration”
A new video from the Equal Justice Initiative sets out to explain how the myth of racial difference that was created to sustain American slavery persists today. Slavery did not end in 1865, it evolved....
View ArticleExperience RIKERS, Face to Face
Rikers Island, New York City's largest jail, is chock full of detainees awaiting their day in court (if it ever comes) or, once convicted, a bus trip to an upstate prison. From time to time reports of...
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