Race in America: Fighting for Justice
The driving force behind the powerful lynching monument in Montgomery, Ala., Bryan Stevenson is also the executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative and author of the critically acclaimed memoir, “Just Mercy.” He is focused on eliminating excessive sentencing, exonerating innocent prisoners on death row, and working to help children who are prosecuted as adults. On Thursday, Oct. 1 at 10:00 a.m. ET, Stevenson will discuss his anti-poverty efforts, racial discrimination in the criminal justice system and the on-going protests against police brutality across the United States with Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart.
