Bryan Stevenson Interview: From HBO’s “True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality”

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Bryan Stevenson cites the first time he visited death row while interning at the Southern Center for Human Rights (SCHR) in Atlanta, Georgia as a transformative moment in his life that turned him into a student that was committed to “mastering the law”. He explores the long history of racism in America and says slavery didn’t end in 1865, but it evolved. Stevenson explains the importance of opening The National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, dedicated to the victims of lynchings.
Bryan Stevenson is the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), a human rights organization 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. He is the author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller, Just Mercy (2014). He is a graduate of the Harvard Law School and the Harvard School of Government. Stevenson’s work has won him numerous awards, including the prestigious MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Prize.
From the HBO / Kunhardt Film Foundation (KFF) Documentary “True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality,” a look at how the Alabama attorney struggles to create more fairness in the legal system.
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@divayanche1 4 жыл бұрын

This man is a definition of a hero....keep standing up for the helpless and bringing justice.....Kepp up the good work. Bless bless your heart! 👏👏👏👏

@jaaziel9 4 жыл бұрын

Bryan Stevenson! You are just magnificent!!! With all the effort going on to hide our history, I am so happy that you are making an effort to keep it alive. I am in with you and will do whatever I can to support your work for equality.

@jasonbenton508 Жыл бұрын

Mr. Stevenson, please keep doing what you're doing!

@justmyopinion9883 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing this beautiful conversation with Bryan Stevenson. He is worth his weight in gold. I love his stories of his Grandmother.

@mrshowtime991 3 ай бұрын

Mr. Stevenson is a legend for fba black Americans, we love you.

@chazyou10 2 жыл бұрын

I wish he could talk to people like Candice Owens and get her to wake up!! Be kind is the motto

@miriamreilly452 4 жыл бұрын

Powerful work beautifully and movingly narrated. Made a very big impact on me and opened my eyes to systemic injustices in the US criminal justice system. Convinced me of the real dangers of white-washing history and denying future generations the truth of what happened in the past.

@darrylevans4401 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you brotha for telling us about what you went through in this white supermists racist country. We need more of you to come forward and talk about what we black folks have gone through in this racist country.

@natashaibanez6134 2 жыл бұрын

Enlightening, thank you

@mariejean-louis4843 4 жыл бұрын

What an endearing humble caring down to earth human being. We need more people like that on this planet. Much love Bryan

@boxgaming281 4 жыл бұрын

Wonderful Man!!

@jujubee90275 4 жыл бұрын

What a beautiful, beautiful man. 💝💜💜

@kwasimwalimuhoracecraft5208 2 жыл бұрын

Yes I strongly agree and appreciate his continued efforts to help us.

@andrew1979ish 3 жыл бұрын

We can only hope our children grow into a person like this man, untold bravery and compassion when he could have turned his back for a comfy life his story humbling why can the US get someone like this to run for president

@ahnraemenkhera7451 9 ай бұрын

While Dr. Bryan Stevenson’s legacy in human rights work is unmatched, his lore continues to be magnified because of the institutions supporting and promoting his efforts to achieve a greater political future for those most marginalized in contemporary life. Whom he’s no longer having the greatest contact with. I wouldn’t suggest heading back to the trenches of Death Row, USA-concept, for him personally. But I do wonder what success his heirs-apparent & mentorees are having in changing legislation & in humanizing incarcerated people currently to a greater society. They cannot have his own approach, they don’t share his own experience. In another interview conducted a bit more recently, Mr. Stevenson was praised for his “undivisive spirit” in addressing Systemic Injustice/Racism by his host/colleague in the talk before a law school audience. In viewing this vlog, I’m made mindful of his use of the pronoun “we” in descriptions of historical White Supremacist assertions in the Law, in Economics, in Education, & in “Entertainment,” in Politics & even an honorable mention to Religious indoctrination as it has been traditionally practiced, as an adjunct subsystem to The System of White Supremacy, in practice. This subtle & gentle use of “we” in Mr. Stevenson’s case is pointedly accurate. Inasmuch as he, himself, has been able to geographically remove himself from the greatest testing ground of his individual experience-the AL-concept. Also, as an individual holding his professorship at one of the USA-concept’s top universities academically, he holds an almost uniquely-positioned placement to provide instruction and information to some of the most privileged, affluent, & prominent students as family-members of the USA-concept’s leading ownership of capital interests, state-to-state. Therefore, he should clarify, that overwhelmingly most people classified Black have no such access to this day. Nor do they share a common “we” link in historical references to either his personal home life narrative, or to the community to whom he’s now most acclimated at Harvard Law. His personal credits & achievements remain, for most, an “exceptional” distinction, held only by Mr. Stevenson & a smattering of others uniquely hand-picked & excellently educated for the purpose of generating Justice. Which isn’t Justice when the module for Education predates 1855, itself, & only admits a carefully chosen few to “achieve” what was already achievable in the colonial era for persons whose humanity & citizenship have never been challenged or questioned domestically, let alone subjected them to lynch mobs, to so-called “segregation,” to Jim Crow peonage, to bans on any freedom they enjoy, to redlining, barring, nor to mass-incarceration in proportion to their populace, with general intent to extract unpaid labor, based on “race.” It would be more informative to his classes, to his lecture audiences, & to film audiences, & the wider general public to make clear that he regards himself as having already received relative parity, restoration, reparations & reconciliation to a satisfactory extent-individually, if that is true. If he experiences no impediment to his progress. That’s as it should be. But it shouldn’t be omitted that millions of others in Dr. Bryan Stevenson’s own racial grouping have not. They remain still bottom-caste, well beneath the freely-migrating groupings of Nonwhite persons currently elevated to nearly-complete “citizenship,” if not full citizenship in terms of capital, in material advancement, in unfettered positioning-without the traditional general perception of shaming & blaming which Black people endure currently-at his own group’s implicit expense. A newly-bestowed status (post-1990) which many have seized with equal disdain for Black people, & with equal relish in claiming privileges, based on colorism, assimilation, & based on systemic Black deprivations (systematized Injustice, each instance), as their own watermarks of inclusion in that “we.” Nonetheless, Professor Stevenson remains a Great scholarly source of encyclopedic knowledge, of doctrinal, historical, structural & practicable policy and procedures for eliminating disparities, exclusion, omissions, & for generating dignity, self-respect & Justice which many more people (of all “racial” groupings) should make much better efforts to emulate!! His very presence is Instructive. He embodies that “Lesson Before Dying” Ernest Gaines wrote so lovingly about, in another era. ⚖️🇺🇸 🙏🏽♥️⭐️🤎🍁🍂🙏🏽🖤🌟♥️⚖️

@lang1031 3 ай бұрын

I am a heterosexual white man. With that being said I still say this....I love this man. If I had the means of bills still being paid I would give much time to do whatever I could to help this man in his endeavors.

@calroach1 4 жыл бұрын

Bryan Stevenson gives me hope.

@rodicasavaczki2721 3 жыл бұрын

I'm very impressed after I've just seen:"Just Mercy". Like John Lennon's words :" You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one "... RESPECT !!!

@sharmilagunasekara3159 3 жыл бұрын

I love him and his work! He is inspiring. He is a hero! 💕🙏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

@dereknicolas7635 3 ай бұрын

You’re telling me that’s not Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez in the same person?!

@monamurphy3489 Жыл бұрын

Although ìt is now 2023, how wonderful that we have this wonderful opportunity to meet this marvelous human being! Wouldn't we have had a different opinion of SCOTUS if he had been seated in The Honorable Thurgood Marshall's seat instead the present occupant! OMG just thinking about how close we might have been to that reality gives me chills. The firstborn offspring of an attorney (deceased) I wonder if I could have been an attorney? I'm going to think about that! (LOL 😂)