From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration

August 23, 2016 11:32 AM

The Legacy Of Lynching, On Death Row - "In Alabama, Bryan Stevenson is saving inmates from execution and memorializing the darkest episodes of America’s past."
posted by the man of twists and turns (5 comments total)

He is an amazing, amazing human being. He was also interviewed by Charlie Rose yesterday.
posted by AwkwardPause at 11:34 AM on August 23, 2016 [1 favorite]

On topic from 1919: The fight against lynching (also available this week from Project Gutenberg).
posted by mfoight at 12:20 PM on August 23, 2016

Charles Pierce has a story about it as well.
posted by TedW at 2:05 PM on August 23, 2016

I had the pleasure of seeing him speak in February, at my company's weekly all-hands which was turned into a black history month event for one afternoon. He's an incredibly strong speaker; didn't really expect to be moved to tears at an afternoon work event.
posted by kaibutsu at 4:43 PM on August 23, 2016 [1 favorite]

I used to work at NYU Law and have had the privilege to work with him and hear him speak on multiple occasions. I really identify with that paragraph of adulation midway through the article: to me, he is unquestionably a Great Person of our time. I'm glad to hear he's making progress on this mission to bear witness to the victims of lynching in America--it's a subject I've heard him mention as part of a larger context, but had no idea he was planning something so official.
posted by soonertbone at 10:10 AM on August 24, 2016