Bryan Stevenson

Actor and activist Mike Farrell in conversation with Bryan Stevenson of the Equal Justice Initiative, winner of the 2014 ALBA/Puffin Award for Human Rights Activism, at the New School's Orozco Room in New York City, on April 27, 2014. Introduction by Marina Garde, Executive Director of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives.

Bryan Stevenson & Mike Farrell

As Ferguson awaits the grand jury's decision in the Michael Brown shooting in Missouri, we speak to attorney Bryan Stevenson, author of the new book, "Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption." With growing focus on the failures of the criminal justice system, Stevenson has been fighting those injustices case by case. He is founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, a group based in Alabama that represents some of this country's most marginalized people — the poor and the wrongfully convicted. Stevenson has won relief for dozens of condemned prisoners and argued before the U.S. Supreme Court six times. In 2012, he won a landmark Supreme Court case that barred states from giving mandatory life sentences without parole to children. The Nobel Prize-winning South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu has called Stevenson "America's young Mandela." Others have compared him to Atticus Finch, the fearless, fictional hero of Harper Lee's seminal novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird." Stevenson's book tells many stories, but focuses in particular on his battle to free an African-American man named Walter McMillian, who was falsely convicted and condemned to die for killing a white woman in Harper Lee's hometown of Monroeville, Alabama. Stevenson joins us to discuss his work, the situation in Ferguson, and why he argues that the opposite of poverty is not wealth, but justice. Visit http://democracynow.org to watch the full daily news program, read the transcript, or search our vast online archive. Livestream weekdays 8-9am ET. Livestream weekdays 8-9am ET. Follow Democracy Now! on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Tumblr, Stitcher, SoundCloud, iTunes, TuneIn, Google+ and Pinterest.

"Just Mercy": Bryan Stevenson on Ferguson, Prison Reform & Why the Opposite of Poverty is Justice

Bryan Stevenson is the executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, and a professor of law at New York University Law School. He has won relief for dozens of condemned prisoners, argued five times before the Supreme Court, and won national acclaim for his work challenging bias against the poor and people of color. He has received numerous awards, including the MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Grant.

Five Minutes with Bryan Stevenson

Bryan Stevenson is a public-interest lawyer and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, which is committed to eliminating bias against the poor and people of color in the criminal justice system. A professor at New York University Law School and a graduate of Harvard Law School, he argued for and won the historic ruling in the U.S. Supreme Court that mandatory life-without-parole sentences for children 17 or younger are unconstitutional. His new book, Just Mercy, profiles the lives of men, women, and children who are at the mercy of a broken criminal justice system.

Bryan Stevenson - Just Mercy: Reforming the Criminal Justice System - 11/25/14

Days after being exonerated and freed from an Alabama prison, Anthony Ray Hinton recounts how he got through nearly 30 years on death row as an innocent man. Hinton was convicted of murdering two fast-food managers in separate robberies in 1985, based on scant evidence that later turned out to be false. Hinton is said to be among the longest-serving death row prisoners ever to be freed after presenting evidence of innocence. Hinton joins us along with his attorney, Bryan Stevenson of the Equal Justice Initiative, who says race, poverty, inadequate legal assistance, and prosecutorial indifference to innocence conspired to create a textbook example of injustice. "This is a very powerful demonstration of the critique of the American criminal justice system, which we contend treats you better if you’re rich and guilty than if you’re poor and innocent," Stevenson says. ||| Visit http://democracynow.org to watch the full daily news program, read the transcript, or search our  vast online archive. Livestream weekdays 8-9am ET. Follow Democracy Now! on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Tumblr, Stitcher, SoundCloud, Google+ and Pinterest.

"They Couldn’t Take My Soul": Anthony Ray Hinton on His Exoneration After 30 Years on Death Row

During this week’s radio show you will learn about:
- Identifying the Flaws and Initiating Change Within the US Legal System
- Why the Letter of the Law Can Become Irrelevant
- What Can Be Done to Enable Our Legal System to Operate the Way It Was Meant To
- The Purpose and Place of Compassion Within the Justice System
- Changes That Can Happen on a Local Level

Independence from Injustice: A Look at Our Legal System With Adam Benforado and Bryan Stevenson

This is a recording of Bryan Stevenson the brilliant social justice lawyer and profound story teller. He spoke tonight at the Carnegie Music Hall in Pittsburgh, January 25, 2016 on the same day the Supreme Court ruled Juveniles can challenge Life Sentences! A decision we have been waiting to hear for over 3 years!   He is an American lawyer, social justice activist, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative. HE'S AMAZING!! Question and answer included. http://www.eji.org/

Bryan Stevenson - 4 strategies for Justice

As a law student, Bryan Stevenson was sent to a maximum security prison to meet a man on death row. The man told Stevenson he'd never met an African-American lawyer, and the two of them talked for hours. It was a day that changed Stevenson's life. He's spent the last 30 years working to get people off of death row, but has also spent the final hours with men he could not save from execution. He argues that each of us is deserving of mercy. 

Learn more about Bryan Stevenson in his book, Just Mercy. 

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Episode 45: Just Mercy

TAKEOVER is a special series of episodes that puts you on the ground during the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, Colorado. This episode features Emily Yoffe (The Atlantic) as takeover host in conversation with Bryan Stevenson (Equal Justice Initiative), Helen Fisher (The Kinsey Institute, Match.com), and Geoffrey Stone (Univ. of Chicago Law School). Yoffe asks probing questions and touches on issues such as the Supreme Court, politics, and love and sex. Music: Gillicuddy, Podington Bear

TAKEOVER 4: Emily Yoffe with Bryan Stevenson and others

Bryan Stevenson Podcast

In this episode David Blight speaks with Bryan Stevenson, the founding director of the Equal Justice Initiative and the author of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption. Mr. Stevenson was here at Yale University to give the annual Parks-King Lecture at the Yale Divinity School.

Yale University

Slavery and Its Legacies - Bryan Stevenson

As the US continues to grapple with issues of race, history is proving to be an invaluable tool to underscore and discuss uncomfortable truths still governing the dynamics of race. How can history help us face and overcome troubling truths? Bryan Stevenson, founder and director of the Equal Justice Initiative, speaks with Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust about his organization’s efforts to build a museum examining the legacy of slavery, racial terrorism, segregation, and police violence. Stevenson says it’s time to change the narrative and it starts with America owning up to its history.

Race and History

Aspen Ideas To Go: Equal Justice Initiative Founder Bryan Stevenson Talks Race & Culture In America

Bryan Stevenson (2/24/17)

Bryan Stevenson, executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, discusses the opening of the Legacy Museum and National Memorial for Peace and Justice (aka, the lynching memorial). He talks about confronting racial terrorism in America and what we need to do to end it.

Bryan Stevenson wants us to confront racial terrorism and then say, ‘Never again.’

We've taken Jonathan's hour long sit down with Bryan Stevenson on the  lynching memorial and legacy museum opening in Montgomery, Alabama and cut it down to give you some highlights.

Bryan Stevenson TL;DR

10 journalists were killed in Afghanistan in the deadliest day for press in the country since 2001; the National Memorial for Peace and Justice opens in Montgomery, Alabama, remembering U.S. victims of white supremacy.

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Extended conversation with Bryan Stevenson, the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, the nonprofit behind the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, the country’s first-ever memorial to the victims of lynching in the United States. 

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Web Extra: Bryan Stevenson on Slavery, White Supremacy, Prisons & More

On Saturday Nov. 3, civil rights and public interest lawyer Bryan Stevenson receives the Fred L. Shuttlesworth Human Rights Award. Prior to the event, the Birmingham News sat down with Stevenson to discuss what justice means and how we can orient our society toward it. 

Bryan Stevenson Interview Oct. 31, 2012

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