Bryan Stevenson

1 Chocolate Milkshake: The Power of Hope

 
 

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Gepubliceerd op 1 aug. 2015

 
Watch Bryan Stevenson’s inspiring story of hope. According to Stevenson, founder and president of the Equal Justice Initiative, without hope there is no justice. South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu calls Stevenson, “America’s Nelson Mandela.” Join the Children’s Defense and advocates around the country and stand with us for children, together we can end child poverty now. http://ow.ly/P3m1p
 
LIFE IS NOT EASY!
HOW TO HANDLE AN EXCEPTIONAL SITUATION?
 
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2 “Just Mercy”: Bryan Stevenson on instilling compassion in young adults

 
 

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Gepubliceerd op 19 sep. 2018

The U.S. incarcerates more of its citizens than any other nation in the world, according to the latest government data. In 2016, about 2 million people were in jails and prisons. That’s compared to less than 200,000 in 1972. The Equal Justice Initiative is a non-profit organization that provides legal representation for inmates, and works to end mass incarceration. Founder and executive director Bryan Stevenson joins “CBS This Morning” to discuss why he decided to turn his 2014 bestseller, “Just Mercy,” into a book for young adult readers.
 
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3 Bryan Stevenson ’85 | “We can’t recover from this history until we deal with it.”


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Gepubliceerd op 30 jan. 2019

 
Bryan Stevenson ’85 discusses the legacy of slavery and the vision behind creating the National Memorial for Peace and Justice and The Legacy Museum in Montgomery Alabama. Stevenson is the founder and Executive Director of Equal Justice Initiative, an organization that provides legal assistance to death row prisoners, prisoners facing unduly harsh sentences, and juveniles sentenced as adults. Camera: Martin Albert Lorin Granger Interview: Chris Jennings

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


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Gepubliceerd op 6 apr. 2015

 
http://democracynow.org – 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.
 
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5 Anthony Ray Hinton: How he survived Death Row

 
 

10 mei 2015

Anthony Ray Hinton spent 30 years on Alabama’s Death Row. In his first interview with local media, after his release in April, 2015, Hinton describes what it was like on Death Row and the challenges he faces as a free man after years of incarceration

6 Just Mercy: Race and the Criminal Justice System with Bryan Stevenson

 
 

Gepubliceerd op 27 jun. 2017

 
Bryan Stevenson, acclaimed public interest lawyer and founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative delivers the 2016 Anne and Loren Kieve Distinguished Speaker Lecture on race and the criminal justice system. A roundtable conversation featuring Jennifer Eberhardt, Gary Segura, Robert Weisberg, JD ’79, Bryan Stevenson, and Katie Couric follows Bryan Stevenson’s keynote address.
 
OpenXChange is a year-long, student-focused initiative on campus that aims to encourage meaningful dialogue around tough issues.
 
This is the first in a series of discussions with Stanford faculty and global experts on criminal justice, inequality and international conflict.
 
This event was recorded on Wednesday, Jan 13, 2016
 
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7 February 14, 2016: Sunday Sermon by Bryan Stevenson

 
 
 

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Gepubliceerd op 14 feb. 2016

 
 
February 14, 2016: Sunday Worship Service at Washington National Cathedral. Join us for the celebration of Holy Eucharist on the first Sunday in Lent. Bryan Stevenson, executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, preaches and the Rev. Canon Kelly Brown Douglas presides.

8 Cocktails & Conversations with Bryan Stevenson and Damien Echols at First-Year Experience® 2015

 
 

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Bryan Stevenson, author of JUST MERCY: A STORY OF JUSTICE AND REDEMPTION (Random House) and Damien Echols, author of LIFE AFTER DEATH (Plume) in conversation on social justice at the First-Year Experience® (FYE) 2015 Conference in Dallas, TX.

Moderated by New York Times journalist and MORE AWESOME THAN MONEY: FOUR BOYS AND THEIR HEROIC QUEST TO SAVE YOUR PRIVACY FROM FACEBOOK (Viking) author Jim Dwyer.

BRYAN STEVENSON is the executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, and a tenured 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.

DAMIEN ECHOLS was born in 1974 and grew up in Mississippi, Tennessee, Maryland, Oregon, Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas. At age eighteen he was wrongfully convicted of murder, along with Jason Baldwin and Jessie Miskelley, Jr. Echols received a death sentence and spent almost eighteen years on Death Row, until he, Baldwin, and Misskelley were released in 2011. The West Memphis Three have been the subject of Paradise Lost, a three-part documentary series produced by HBO, and West of Memphis, a documentary produced by Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh. Echols is the author of Almost Home,the New York Times bestseller, Life After Death, and, with his wife Lorri Davis, Yours for Eternity. He lives in New York.

9 Bryan Stevenson at the First-Year Experience® (FYE) 2015 Random House Luncheon

 
 

Gepubliceerd op 4 mrt. 2015

 
Bryan Stevenson, author of JUST MERCY: A STORY OF JUSTICE AND REDEMPTION (Random House), speaks about his book at the First-Year Experience® (FYE) 2015 Conference in Dallas, TX.

10 Bryan Stevenson: Doing the Uncomfortable (from GRID14)

 
 
 

Gepubliceerd op 24 okt. 2017

 
Hailing from Montgomery, Alabama, Bryan Stevenson is widely acclaimed as one of the most effective public service lawyers in America. A Harvard Law School graduate, he has devoted his life to helping the poor, the incarcerated and the condemned. Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Desmond Tutu describes him as “America’s young Nelson Mandela, a brilliant lawyer fighting with courage and conviction to guarantee justice for all.” Bryan Stevenson founded the Equal Justice Initiative and has been largely responsible for reversals or reduced sentences in over 65 death penalty cases.

11 The Forum: Professor of Clinical Law Bryan Stevenson on Just Mercy

 


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Gepubliceerd op 3 apr. 2015
Milbank Tweed Forum: A talk by Professor of Clinical Law Bryan Stevenson on his recently published book, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

Followed by Q&A moderated by Dean Trevor Morrison

This event was co-sponsored by the Brennan Center for Justice

“Just Mercy is every bit as moving as To Kill a Mockingbird, and in some ways more so. . . . [It] demonstrates, as powerfully as any book on criminal justice that I’ve ever read, the extent to which brutality, unfairness, and racial bias continue to infect criminal law in the United States. But at the same time that [Bryan] Stevenson tells an utterly damning story of deep-seated and widespread injustice, he also recounts instances of human compassion, understanding, mercy, and justice that offer hope. . . . Just Mercy is a remarkable amalgam, at once a searing indictment of American criminal justice and a stirring testament to the salvation that fighting for the vulnerable sometimes yields.”
—David Cole, The New York Review of Books

“A searing, moving and infuriating memoir . . . Bryan Stevenson may, indeed, be America’s Mandela. For decades he has fought judges, prosecutors and police on behalf of those who are impoverished, black or both. . . . Injustice is easy not to notice when it affects people different from ourselves; that helps explain the obliviousness of our own generation to inequity today. We need to wake up. And that is why we need a Mandela in this country.”
—Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times

This event was held on April 1, 2015.

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12 The Equity Series: Truth and Reconciliation – Bryan Stevenson with Khalil G. Muhammad | MoMA LIVE

 

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Live gestreamd op 30 okt. 2015
Bryan Stevenson joins Khalil G. Muhammad, director of the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, for a conversation on the relationship between U.S. racial history and contemporary social justice issues; the EJI’s Lynching Project; and the roles that cultural institutions can play by acknowledging, discussing, and commemorating historical events.

This conversation is the first in our Equity Series, public conversations that address the meaning of equity in contemporary culture and society, and the steps required for progress. The series is organized by The Museum of Modern Art and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Learn more: http://bit.ly/1G5WdJT

In advance of the conversation, MoMA curator Leah Dickerman shares a few helpful references on Bryan Stevenson’s work and the Equal Justice Initiative:

1. Bryan Stevenson at TED 2012: ‘We need to talk about an injustice’ : http://bit.ly/1odxsyf
2. “Bryan Stevenson: America’s Mandela,” The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/20…
3. New York Times Book Review of ‘Just Mercy,’ by Bryan Stevenson: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/boo…
4. EJI’s Lynching Project: http://www.eji.org/lynchinginamerica
5. “Slavery to Mass Incarceration,” an animated short film by artist Molly Crabapple: http://www.eji.org/slaveryevolved

13 Bryan Stevenson: “Confronting Injustice” | SXSW Live 2015 | SXSW ON



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Gepubliceerd op 29 apr. 2015

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Bryan Stevenson talks about defending some of America’s most rejected and marginalized people. The stories he tells are heartbreaking, yet inspiring, and motivate audiences to make a change.

America has the largest prison population in the world – and the criminal justice system that puts the men, women, and children in these prisons is broken. Excessive punishment and abuse are widespread, and the collateral consequences are devastating lives and communities.

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About SXSW:
Started in 1987, South by Southwest (SXSW) is a set of film, interactive, and music festivals and conferences that take place early each year in mid-March in Austin, Texas. SXSW’s original goal was to create an event that would act as a tool for creative people and the companies they work with to develop their careers, to bring together people from a wide area to meet and share ideas. That continues to be the goal today whether it is music, film or interactive technologies.

14 Bryan Stevenson accepts Public Counsel’s 2016 William O. Douglas Award


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Gepubliceerd op 7 jul. 2016

 
Bryan Stevenson accepts Public Counsel’s 2016 William O. Douglas Award on June 30th in Los Angeles.
 
 
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15 Is it healthy for America’s identity to keep our eyes closed?

 
 

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8 aug. 2012

How do our individual identities shape society? Bryan Stevenson argues that to change a system that isn’t working, we have to question our own role in it.
 
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Minute 14’45”: things who are unconfortable
 
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16 Grace, Justice, & Mercy: An Evening with Bryan Stevenson & Rev. Tim Keller

 

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3 jun. 2016

In an age of mass incarceration and growing racial tension, how can a church committed to the flourishing of a whole city engage as ambassadors of reconciliation and restoration? Bryan Stevenson & Tim Keller will help us explore ways to sustain hope through a grace filled pursuit of justice and mercy as they draw from their own calling and work.

Bryan Stevenson is one of this nation’s most influential public interest lawyers and the Founder & Director of the Equal Justice Initiative. For over 30 years, Stevenson has dedicated his life to help release those wrongly condemned on death row. He has also successfully advocated to eliminate the prosecution of children as adults. Leading the charge for a renewed conversation about racism in the US by connecting contemporary injustices with slavery, lynching, and segregation, Stevenson is the bestselling author of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption.

Rev. Tim Keller has committed his life to presenting the gospel – through preaching, teaching, and church planting – in ways that challenge not just our heads but our hearts to bring about lasting transformation. Co-founder and Senior Pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church for the last 27 years, Tim is also a prolific author. His many books have been translated into 26 languages.

17 Grace, Justice, & Mercy: An Evening with Bryan Stevenson & Rev. Tim Keller Q &A


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3 jun. 2016

In an age of mass incarceration and growing racial tension, how can a church committed to the flourishing of a whole city engage as ambassadors of reconciliation and restoration? Bryan Stevenson & Tim Keller will help us explore ways to sustain hope through a grace filled pursuit of justice and mercy as they draw from their own calling and work.

Bryan Stevenson is one of this nation’s most influential public interest lawyers and the Founder & Director of the Equal Justice Initiative. For over 30 years, Stevenson has dedicated his life to help release those wrongly condemned on death row. He has also successfully advocated to eliminate the prosecution of children as adults. Leading the charge for a renewed conversation about racism in the US by connecting contemporary injustices with slavery, lynching, and segregation, Stevenson is the bestselling author of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption.

Rev. Tim Keller has committed his life to presenting the gospel – through preaching, teaching, and church planting – in ways that challenge not just our heads but our hearts to bring about lasting transformation. Co-founder and Senior Pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church for the last 27 years, Tim is also a prolific author. His many books have been translated into 26 languages.

Moderated by: Pamela Brown-Peterside is a long-time member of Redeemer’s Grace & Race group and has been working at Redeemer for 8 years. She currently oversees a team that cares for 90 community groups that are part of our West Side congregation. Community groups meet throughout the week usually in people’s apartments to worship, pray, study the Bible, and serve together. Before joining the Redeemer staff, Pamela worked in HIV/AIDS prevention with women in the South Bronx for almost a decade and saw firsthand the effects of poverty and mass incarceration in those communities of color. Originally from Nigeria, she has lived in New York City for over 20 years.

18 The urgent need for reconciliation in the United States | Bryan Stevenson


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15 aug. 2017

Located in Montgomery, Alabama, the Memorial to Peace and Justice relates America’s history of racial terror and lynching. In this powerful, off-the-cuff conversation with TED curator Chris Anderson, Bryan Stevenson shares why he hopes the memorial will be a tool to help heal a nation riven by centuries of racial injustice. 
 
(Note, Bryan spoke at the end of the TED Talk by architect Michael Murphy, designer of the memorial.) https://www.ted.com/talks/michael_mur… 
 
TEDArchive presents previously unpublished talks from TED conferences. Enjoy this unedited talk by Bryan Stevenson. Filmed at TED2016.

19 Bryan Stevenson: We need to talk about an injustice


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15 mei 2012

In an engaging and personal talk — with cameo appearances from his grandmother and Rosa Parks — human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson shares some hard truths about America’s justice system, starting with a massive imbalance along racial lines: a third of the country’s black male population has been incarcerated at some point in their lives. These issues, which are wrapped up in America’s unexamined history, are rarely talked about with this level of candor, insight and persuasiveness. Bryan Stevenson is the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, fighting poverty and challenging racial discrimination in the criminal justice system.

20 The Power of Proximity | CEO Initiative 2018


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With leadership comes responsibility. A heartfelt challenge to turn the narrative of racial indifference and create a more just world – from a preeminent champion of the poor, marginalized, and discluded.
 
Bryan Stevenson, Founder and Executive Director, Equal Justice Initiative
 
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21 True Justice (2019) | Official Trailer | HBO

10 jun. 2019

 
True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality shows public interest attorney Bryan Stevenson’s struggle to create greater fairness in the legal system and demonstrates how racial injustice emerged, evolved and continues to threaten the country, challenging viewers to confront it. True Justice premieres June 26 at 8 PM.

22 Bryan Stevenson on Evening the Odds in American Justice

 
 
Fifty years ago, the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in the case of Gideon v. Wainwright established the constitutional right of criminal defendants to legal representation, even if they can’t afford it. The Court ruled there shouldn’t be one kind of justice for the rich and another for the poor, but the scales of the American legal system still tilt heavily in favor of the white and wealthy. Attorney and legal scholar Bryan Stevenson joins Bill to expose the system’s failures, and ongoing struggles at the crossroads of race, class and justice.
 
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23 ‘Just Mercy’ and the real-life story of the attorney who exonerated death row inmates l Nightline

 

11 jan. 2020

The film’s stars Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Foxx discuss their roles. An exonerated death row inmate and the attorney who freed him share their perspective behind the movie.

24 Bryan Stevenson Interview Selects – True Justice



18 sep. 2019

Selects from our interview with Bryan Stevenson for the HBO / Kunhardt Film Foundation Documentary “True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight For Equality.”
 
Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director of The Equal Justice Initiative

 
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25 Bryan Stevenson on Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

 

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8 mei 2015

Rich Fahle interviews attorney and author Bryan Stevenson about the his book, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption.

FROM THE PUBLISHER:
A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice—from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time

Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of our criminal justice system. One of his first cases was that of Walter McMillian, a young man who was sentenced to die for a notorious murder he insisted he didn’t commit. The case drew Bryan into a tangle of conspiracy, political machination, and legal brinksmanship—and transformed his understanding of mercy and justice forever.

Just Mercy is at once an unforgettable account of an idealistic, gifted young lawyer’s coming of age, a moving window into the lives of those he has defended, and an inspiring argument for compassion in the pursuit of true justice.

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26 JUST MERCY Cast and Crew Q&A | TIFF 2019

 

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7 sep. 2019

Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx, and Brie Larson star in the powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson (Jordan), who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian (Foxx), a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence. Bryan fights tirelessly for Walter with the system stacked against them. From director Destin Daniel Cretton, based on the book by Stevenson.

Some films have the depth, grace, and emotional power to feel like classics from the very first viewing. Just Mercy is that film. Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx, and Brie Larson lead an impressive cast in Destin Daniel Cretton’s deeply moving drama of justice in America.

Bryan Stevenson (Jordan), a Harvard law graduate, turns his back on more comfortable and lucrative work, returning south to help prisoners in Monroe County, Alabama. With the help of Eva Ansley (Larson), a local equally committed to prisoner’s rights, he sets up a small office to take on the most challenging of cases — death row inmates. It’s 1989, but walking into the W.C. Holman Correctional Facility is like stepping back into the South before Civil Rights.

Walter McMillian (Foxx) was arrested for killing a white woman, pushed through a shoddy trial, then deposited on death row, where he joined other desperate men who may or may not have committed the crimes that landed them there. The local authorities are actively indifferent to the truth of these men’s cases, but Stevenson and Ansley are determined to hold the justice system accountable.

Jordan adds new layers to the intensity and commanding presence he brought to the Creed movies and Black Panther, while Foxx (Ray, Collateral) gives one of the best performances of his career. Cretton (Short Term 12) crafts each performance, each scene, in Just Mercy to add to the cumulative power of a film that is not just a true story, but a story committed to revealing truths.

At minute 10: Bryan Stevenson is talking


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27 Bryan Stevenson: “Just Mercy: a story of justice and redemption”

 
 

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19 feb. 2016

Professor Bryan Stevenson of NYU Law School, one of America’s leading human rights lawyers and clinical law professors, offered his reflections and vision on how to confront injustice and build a just society at a public lecture at Melbourne Law School on 19 February 2015.
 
He also launched his New York Times Top 10 best seller, Just Mercy, a memoir of his experience in tackling racism and injustice in the American justice system.

28 You Don’t Create Justice by Doing What is Comfortable | Bryan Stevenson | Google Zeitgeist

 

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21 okt. 2015

Google Zeitgeist is a collection of talks by people who are changing the world. Hear entrepreneurs, CEOs, storytellers, scientists, and dreamers share their visions of how we can shape tomorrow.
 
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We are responsible Proximity

29 Bryan Stevenson Speaks on “Just Mercy” Themes: St. Edward’s University

 

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7 okt. 2015

St. Edward’s University

Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative and author of “Just Mercy,” speaks with St. Edward’s University faculty member Alex Barron about the importance of advocating for social justice and truth and reconciliation in the criminal justice system. Stevenson’s visit to St. Edward’s in Austin, Texas, included classroom discussions with students and a speech to the university community.

About St. Edward’s University:
St. Edward’s University is a private, liberal arts college in the Catholic Holy Cross Tradition with approximately 4,600 students. Located in Austin, Texas, it is one of the top universities in Texas and offers undergraduate and graduate programs, including MBA programs and a master’s degree in counseling. With a network of partner universities around the world, St. Edward’s is a diverse community with programs designed to inspire students with a global perspective. St. Edward’s University has been recognized for 15 consecutive years as one of “America’s Best Colleges” by U.S. News & World Report and ranks in the top 15 Best Regional Universities in the Western Region.

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30 Speaker Bryan Stevenson

 
 

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21 mrt. 2017

Bryan Stevenson, Founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative, spoke to the College at the 2017 Spring Meeting in Boca Raton, Florida.
 
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31 Tavis Smiley & Bryan Stevenson: Dr. King’s Beyond Vietnam Speech


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5 apr. 2017

Leading with conviction and hope, and the need for redemption.
 
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32 The Future of Race and Inequality in the United States


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4 mrt. 2017

Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law Launch Event
February 27, 2017
Tishman Auditorium

“The Future of Race and Inequality in the United States,” the inaugural conversation of the Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law.

Moderated by:
Tony Thompson, Professor of Clinical Law and Faculty Director of NYU Law’s Center on Race, Inequality and the Law

Speakers:
The Honorable Loretta E. Lynch, 83rd Attorney General of the United States
Sherrilyn Ifill ’87, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.
Bryan Stevenson, NYU Law Professor of Clinical Law, Founder and Executive Director of Equal Justice Initiative

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Lector starts at minute 6: powerfull start

People of good conscience

33 Race and History

 

22 jul. 2016

The Aspen Institute

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 difficult dynamics of race in America.

How can history help us face and overcome such uncomfortable truths? How can history help slay our ignorance?

Drew Gilpin Faust interviews Bryan Stevenson, Founder and Executive Director of Equal Justice Initiative

Aspen Ideas Festival 2016

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34 Terror Lynching in America

 

11 okt. 2016

Our history of racial terror casts a shadow across the U.S. landscape. We must engage it more honestly.

35 Bryan Stevenson Q&A following a screening of JUST MERCY


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26 nov. 2019

American Film Institute

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Following a screening of JUST MERCY, social justice attorney Bryan Stevenson talks to NBC News’ Simone Boyce about the film based on his life. This Q&A took place at AFI FEST 2019 presented by Audi in November 2019.

Based on Stevenson’s book “Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption,” this heartening, powerful drama directed by Destin Daniel Cretton (SHORT TERM 12) stars Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx and Brie Larson and tells the story of one of Stevenson’s most provocative cases.

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36 We need to talk about an injustice – Bryan Stevenson


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12 apr. 2013

 
In an engaging and personal talk — with cameo appearances from his grandmother and Rosa Parks — human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson shares some hard truths about America’s justice system, starting with a massive imbalance along racial lines: a third of the country’s black male population has been incarcerated at some point in their lives. These issues, which are wrapped up in America’s unexamined history, are rarely talked about with this level of candor, insight and persuasiveness. Talk by Bryan Stevenson.
 
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37 American Forum: Equal Justice?

 

31 jul. 2016

 
Civil rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson, returns to discuss solutions for the crisis in criminal justice.
 
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38 Faith Forum: Bryan Stevenson

 

21 feb. 2016

Bryan Stevenson is the founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, and a professor of law at New York University School of Law. 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. His book, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, chronicles his experiences defending those most desperate and in need.
 
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39 Why Is It So Hard to Talk About America’s Past? – Extended Interview | America Inside Out


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12 apr. 2018

Katie Couric and Bryan Stevenson, Director of the Equal Justice Initiative, discuss the history and significance of confederate monuments and memorials, and why to many they represent a painful and powerful reminder of America’s past.
 
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40 Bryan Stevenson | Opening Plenary | SkollWF 2018



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12 apr. 2018

Bryan Stevenson speaks at the Opening Plenary at the Skoll World Forum.

Bryan Stevenson is the founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama. Mr. Stevenson is a widely acclaimed public interest lawyer who has dedicated his career to helping the poor, the incarcerated and the condemned. Under his leadership, EJI has won major legal challenges eliminating excessive and unfair sentencing, exonerating innocent death row prisoners, confronting abuse of the incarcerated and the mentally ill and aiding children prosecuted as adults. EJI recently won an historic ruling in the U.S. Supreme Court holding that mandatory life-without-parole sentences for all children 17 or younger are unconstitutional.

Mr. Stevenson’s work fighting poverty and challenging racial discrimination in the criminal justice system has won him numerous awards. He is a graduate of the Harvard Law School and the Harvard School of Government, and has been awarded 29 honorary doctorate degrees. He is the author of award winning and New York Times bestseller, Just Mercy.

In 2015, he was named to the Time 100 recognizing the world’s most influential people. He was named in Fortune’s 2016 and 2017 World’s Greatest Leaders list. In 2018, EJI will open a new museum called “The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration” built on the site of a former slave warehouse in downtown Montgomery Alabama. This will be a companion to a national memorial to victims of lynching called “The National Memorial for Peace and Justice” which will also open in 2018.

About the Skoll World Forum:
Each year, nearly 1,000 of the world’s most influential social entrepreneurs, key thought leaders, and strategic partners gather at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School to exchange ideas, solutions, and information. The Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship is the premier international platform for advancing entrepreneurial approaches and solutions to the world’s most pressing problems.

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41 Walter McMillian on 60 Minutes

 
 

42 Extended Interview: Bryan Stevenson Reflects On America’s Painful Past | NBC Nightly News

 

Gepubliceerd op 12 okt. 2018

 
Bryan Stevenson, the founder and director of the Equal Justice Initiative, talks to Lester Holt about Montgomery’s National Memorial for Peace and Justice and remembering the country’s painful past, in hopes for a better future.
 
Bovenstaande video geeft de voorgeschiedenis van het racisme vernoemd in het begin van de video  door Jonathan Roberts op de tweede webpagina:
 
“back in my father’s day, students who look like him, like me, were pushed out of schools like this. Before my mother even turned 16, white families around this country rioted against integration”
 Listen at  5′ and 7′
 
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43 Donkey Delivery Prank

 

28 apr. 2011

One of our favourites. Post Canada delivers a donkey to people’s homes. A presentation of the Just For Laughs Gags. The funny hidden camera pranks show for the whole family. Juste pour rire les gags, l’émission de caméra cachée la plus comique de la télé!