Name: Bryan Stevenson wants us to confront racial terrorism and then say, ‘Never again.’ by Washington Post in Bryan Stevenson
Duration: 1 h 1 min 36 s
Description: 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.

Thank you Bryan Stevenson for bringing us the history of lynchings. Saying, 'Never again,' can strengthen people. While many were taught to put that experience behind them, you may be creating a path for healing. Could generations of this pain be the cause for so much lack of self-esteem in some people/families?

Does anyone know whether Bryan and the EJI are working on 13th Amendment issues pertaining to the unconstitutional enslavement of undocumented immigrants who are being detained indefinitely in for-profit prisons and forced to work for slave wages despite not having been "duly convicted" of a crime as required by the U.S. Constitution?

"what we didn't expect were the hundreds of calls that we got from white southerners who talked about family members who would brag about having been involved in a lynching; white southerners who remembered being taken as children to the sites of this brutality and how it's haunted them..."

"Black people were thought of as game. I mean that commodification of African Americans that takes place during slavery--you're not human, you're something else....There's this inability to see the humanity of people because of their color; and, posing with these battered bodies was like posing with the big fish you caught [or] the game you slaughtered. And carving up part of that as a totem of your accomplishment, your achievement in taking the life of a black person just speaks to this horrific bigotry, this horrific disease that has so infected our Nation. And, it's why I think that it's necessary for there to be treatment."

“90% of the African American population at the beginning of the 20th century lived in the deep South. What they knew was agriculture; what they knew were the skills and trades that were associated with an agrarian economy. So this region (i.e., the deep South) offered them the best opportunities to develop and take the skills they had developed during enslavement and turn them into jobs [and] ways to support their families. They were holding on to that...and it was only after being threatened and menaced and terrorized that black people fled. And they went to Cleveland and Chicago and Detroit and Los Angeles and Oakland--not as immigrants seeking new economic opportunities--but they went there as refugees and exiles from terror.”

“They were promised freedom after emancipation, but what they got was terror and lynching. They were promised security and what they got was segregation and apartheid and humiliation. And, then they were promised equality, but what they got was mass incarceration.”

"you take that ticket and you go into the apartheid museum, or you can go back where you came from and you can tell people you were unwilling to confront the legacy of apartheid."   HAM!!

We haven’t created spaces in this country that tell the history of the racial inequality of slavery, of lynching, of segregation that motivate people to say “never again.”  And because we’ve never made that commitment, we keep replicating, institutionalizing and introducing new forms of bigotry and discrimination…. Most people don’t have a visual of slavery that upsets them; they don’t ‘have an optic of people who were enslaved that exposes the brutality of it….people actually debate whether black people were better off during slavery, still. Michelle Obama gave a talk…about living in a house built by slaves (which is a fact in the historical record) [and] she was attacked for it….and that phenomenon is a consequence of our cultural complicity and not educating people about the brutality of it

Bryan Stevenson

A "Gay Girl in Damascus" is actually a straight man in Scotland. Washington Post bloggers Melissa Bell and Elizabeth Flock explain how they uncovered his true identity.

Unraveling "Gay Girl in Damascus"

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 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

Bryan Stevenson Podcast

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.’

VENUS PELLAGATTI XTRAVAGANZA
ROBERT BROOKS
SAM NORDQUIST
AARON BUSHNELL
ELIJAH MCCLAIN
ANTEO ZAMBONI 
SUMMER TAYLOR
AHMED EREKAT
DOMINIQUE REM'MIE FELLS
SARAH GROSSMAN
JAMES SCURLOCK
DAVID MCATEE
EYAD AL-HALAQ
HECTOR GARCIA MENDOZA
GEORGE FLOYD
BREONNA TAYLOR
VICENTE RAMON GUERRERO
MARCI WISE
JOSEPH ROSENBAUM
ANTHONY HUBER
RIAH MILTON
TONY MCDADE 
EUGUI ROY
AHMAUD ARBERY
ASHLYNN LISBY
OLUWATOYIN SALAU 
VICTORIA SIMS
JOHANNA METZGER
ZEZICO GUAJAJARA
ISABEL CABANILLAS
DAVID GLEN WARD
TONY MCDADE
TIFFANY M. MOFIELD
KENNY RICHIE MARTY "MYLEZ" MITCHELL
NÉHÉMIE JOSEPH
NICOLA SACCO
BARTOLOMEO VANZETTI
ANNA LOPIZZO
ATATIANA KOQUICE JEFFERSON
CARY BALL JR.
ROXANA HERNANDEZ
JAKELIN CAAL MAQUIN
FELIPE ALONZO-GOMEZ
DREASJON "SEAN" REED
MCHALE ROSE
JANA LANGE
WILLIE MCCOY
MARIEE JUAREZ
OSMAR EPIFANIO GONZALEZ-GADBA
JEANCARLO JIMENEZ-JOSEPH
HUY CHI TRAN
KALIEF BROWDER
MI'CHANCE DUNLAP-GITTENS
SERGIO ALONSO LOPEZ
KAMYAR SAMIMI
JOSHUA BROWN
GEMMEL MOORE
TIMOTHY DEAN
SAHAR KHODAYARI
DE'VON BAILEY
TONY TIMPA
MARIA DEL PILAR HURTADO
EMILSEN MANYOMA
MOISÉS MOSQUERA MORENO
TEMISTOCLES MACHADO 
ELEAZAR TEQUÍA VITUCAY
HECTOR WILLIAM MINA
ELIJAH AL-AMIN
NINA POP
JENNIFER LAUDE
LAYLEEN POLANCO
PAMELA TURNER
CHYNAL LINDSEY
JOYCE FIENBERG
RICHARD GOTTFRIED
ROSE MALLINGER 
JERRY RABINOWITZ 
CECIL ROSENTHAL 
DAVID ROSENTHAL 
BERNICE SIMON 
SYLVAN SIMON 
DANIEL STEIN 
MOHAMMED ABU KHUDAIR
MOHAMMAD RAMIZ BAKR
AHED ATEF BAKR
ZAKARIYA AHED BAKR
ISMAIL MAHMOUD BAKR
MELVIN WAX 
TIMOTHY CAUGHMAN
LARNELL BRUCE JR
OSCAR JOSE FIGUERA
EMANTIC “EJ” BRADFORD, JR.
TENIYA JONES 
THURMAN BLEVINS
ALEX NIETO
WALTER LUEBCKE
ARMANDO FRANK
RACHEL ALIENE CORRIE
ANTWON ROSE, JR.
LINUS PHILLIP
DIANTE BUTCHIE YARBER
SAHEED VASSEL
DANA MARTIN
ASHANTI CARMON
CLAIRE LEGATO
RACHEL CORRIE
MUHLAYSIA BOOKER
KENNETH CHAMBERLAIN SR.
ADAMA TRAORE
MICHELLE "TAMIKA" WASHINGTON
JAQUARRIUS HOLLAND
DANNY RAY THOMAS
STEPHON CLARK
MARIELLE FRANCO
TOVEET RADCLIFFE
HEATHER HEYER
FRED HAMPTON
LAVENA LYNN JOHNSON
PHILANDO CASTILE
TAMIR RICE
DANROY HENRY
TRAYVON MARTIN
ERIC GARNER
MICHAEL BROWN
WALTER SCOTT
VIOLA LIUZZO
CLAUDIA PATRICIA GOMEZ GONZALEZ
RICKY JOHN BEST
TALIESIN MYRDDIN NAMKAI MECHE
FREDDIE GRAY 
ALTON STERLING
JORDAN EDWARDS
OSCAR RAMIREZ, JR.
LIGE DANIELS
JESSE WASHINGTON
JOSE ANTONIO ELENA RODRIGUEZ
SAM DUBOSE
HENRY SMITH
JOHN HARTFIELD
ELTON MITCHELL
T.A. ALLEN
THOMAS DEVERT
JOE SPINNER JOHNSON
LUTHER HOLBERT
JESSE THORNTON
WILLIAM LITTLE
JEFF BROWN
KEITH BOWEN
GENERAL LEE
THOMAS MILES
GEORGE DORSEY
DOROTHY DORSEY
TARIKA WILSON
DEAUNTA FARROW
SAM HOSE
PATRICK HARMON
SEAN BELL 
ANTHONY LAMAR SMITH
HENRY GLOVER
RONALD MADISON
TIMOTHY STANSBURY
ALBERTA SPRUILL
DEBORAH DANNER
OUSMANE ZONGO
ORLANDO BARLOW
PRINCE JONES
RONALD BEASLEY
EARL MURRAY
PATRICK DORISMOND
MALCOLM FERGUSON
JONATHAN FERRELL
DONTRE HAMILTON
JOHN CRAWFORD III
EZELL FORD
AIYANA JONES
OSCAR GRANT
DANTE PARKER
TANISHA ANDERSON
TYREE WOODSON
VICTOR WHITE III
YVETTE SMITH
MCKENZIE COCHRAN
JORDAN BAKER
ANDY LOPEZ
MIRIAM CAREY
DEION FLUDD
KIMANI GRAY
REYNALDO QUEVAS
SHANTEL DAVIS
TAMON ROBINSON 
SHEREECE FRANCIS
REKIA BOYD 
TROY DAVIS 
AMADOU DIALLO
RAMARLEY GRAHAM
LAQUAN MCDONALD
KENDRICK JOHNSON
LAVENA JOHNSON
MEDGER EVERS
ANDREW GOODMAN 
MICHAEL SCHWERNER 
JAMES CHANEY 
JOHN EARL REESE 
WILLIE EDWARDS JR 
MACK CHARLES PARKER 
MARSH COOK
JOHN BROWN
HERBERT LEE 
ROMAN DUCKSWORTH JR 
WILLIAM LEWIS MOORE 
ADDIE MAE COLLINS 
DENISE MCNAIR 
CAROLE ROBERTSON 
CYNTHIA WESLEY 
VIRGIL WARE 
HENRY HEZEKIAH DEE 
CHARLES MOORE 
LEMUEL PENN 
JIMMIE LEE JACKSON 
JAMES REEB 
ONEAL MOORE 
WILLIE BREWSTER
JONATHAN DANIELS 
VERNON DAHMER 
BEN CHESTER WHITE 
WHARLEST JACKSON
BENJAMIN BROWN 
SAMUEL HAMMOND JR 
DELANO MIDDLETON 
HENRY EZEKIAL SMITH 
NAT TURNER 
ANDY BURKE 
JOHNSON WHITTAKER 
ROBERT ROBINSON 
FRED ALEXANDER 
ROBERT TRUETT
L.B. REED 
CLINTON BRIGGS 
FRANK LIVINGSTON 
BUD JOHNSON 
LUCIUS MCCARTY 
POWELL GREEN 
EARNEST MCGOWAN 
LEE SNELL 
PRECIOUS GRANT 
HUGH JOHNSON
J.C. FARMER 
EUGENE BELLS 
TIMOTHY HOOD 
JAMES STEPHENSON 
ALONZA BROOKS 
DEJUAN GUILLORY 
ROCRAST MACK JR. 
JUSTIN THOMPSON 
DARRIUS STEWART

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

Washington Post

Recent comments

dialectical integrities

dialectical integrities

dialectical integrities

dialectical integrities

Related tracks