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We work to end mass incarceration, excessive punishment, and racial injustice. Led by Bryan Stevenson. Creators of @legacysites.eji.org
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@ejiorg.bsky.social@ejiorg.bsky.social → @eji.orgThe executive director of @eji.org, Bryan Stevenson is a public interest lawyer who has dedicated his career to helping the poor, the incarcerated, and the condemned. Here, he recounts the displacement of millions who fled the dangers and violence of the Jim Crow-era South. #WeAreAmerica250
Show Post"I want to represent the 10 million Black people who were enslaved for 246 years, when our government begins to try to eliminate their history, their stories from our cultural museums."
Show PostWe spend the hour with Bryan Stevenson of Equal Justice Initiative. In 2018, the organization opened the Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama, to tell the history of millions of enslaved Africans who were trafficked across the Atlantic. The museum just opened an exhibition in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Show Post“I often argue that the North won the Civil War, but the South won the narrative war,” says civil rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson, executive director of Equal Justice Initiative (@eji.org).
Show PostAs the Trump administration tries to erase the legacy of slavery and lynching from the nation’s museums, Bryan Stevenson’s Legacy Sites are confronting America’s full past head-on. Hear more on this week’s “More To The Story With Al Letson.” Listen here: tinyurl.com/mucvrwn9
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