by lindaoppenheim | Jan 17, 2019 | interview
In the days leading up to Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Jaime L of the New York Times interviews Bryan Stevenson about incarceration, American history, and Dr. King. ” If we had done the work that we should have done in the 20th century to combat our history of...
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 | Oct 9, 2017 | Article, Truth and Reconciliation, Website
Kriston Capps’ article in the Atlantic describes Bryan Stevenson’s Equal Justice Initiative’s memorial due to open in 2018, “the first such memorial in the U.S., and, its founders hope, it will show how lynchings of black people were essential...
by lindaoppenheim | May 24, 2017 | Community Meeting
One hundred years after his brutal lynching, Eli Persons was commemorated at a ceremony attended by 500 community members in Memphis (May 21, 2017) organized by a student-led activist group, Students Uniting Memphis (SUM) to bring awareness to this and other...
by lindaoppenheim | Oct 12, 2016 | Video
Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, narrates this powerful video that briefly illustrates the history of lynching of black people in the United States by white terrorists. Stevenson explains EJI’s project to memorialize the victims of...
