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After graduation from Harvard Law School in 1985, Bryan Stevenson moved to the South, a region on the verge of a crisis: the states were speeding up executions, but many of the condemned lacked anyone to represent them. On a shoestring budget he started the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), a law practice dedicated to defending some of America’s most rejected and marginalized people. The cases he took on would change Stevenson’s life and transform his understanding of justice and mercy forever. Today, Stevenson is one of the most acclaimed and respected lawyers in the nation. His memoir, Just Mercy, a New York Times bestseller since 2015, is the story of a young lawyer fighting on the frontlines of a country in thrall to extreme punishments and careless justice. It is an inspiring story of unbreakable humanity in the most desperate circumstances, and a powerful indictment of a broken justice system. Nobel Peace Laureate Desmond Tutu (Richmond Forum, 2000) has called Stevenson “America’s young Nelson Mandela.” 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. In 2012, Mr. Stevenson won an historic ruling in the U.S. Supreme Court banning mandatory life-without-parole sentences for all children 17 or younger. In 2016, the Supreme Court ruled that this decision had to be applied retroactively, potentially affecting the sentences of 2,300 people nationwide who had been sentenced to life while still children. In April 2018, the Equal Justice Initiative opened the Legacy Museum and National
Memorial for Peace and Justice. Designed to show how our nation’s history of slavery, lynching, and discrimination set the stage for modern-day injustices such as mass incarceration and police brutality, the Legacy Museum serves as a center of public information and a memorial to victims of racial violence. In January 2020, EJI opened the Legacy Pavilion to honor Montgomery civil rights leaders. Stevenson is the recipient of numerous awards, including the MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Grant and the NAACP Image Award for Best Non-Fiction, and was named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People for 2015. Stevenson is a tenured law professor at New York University School of Law. He was named in Fortune’s 2016 World’s Greatest Leaders list, and served on President Obama’s task force on 21st-century policing. In 2018, he was asked by Starbucks to advise on curriculum for its nationwide day of racial bias education. Just Mercy has been made into a major motion picture starring Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Foxx. The film was released in January 2020.
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The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) has three major focuses: Criminal Justice Reform The United States incarcerates its citizens more than any other country. Mass incarceration disproportionately impacts the poor and people of color and does not make our communities safer. EJI is working to end our misguided reliance on over-incarceration. In the American criminal justice system, wealth—not culpability—shapes outcomes. Many people charged with crimes lack the resources to investigate cases or obtain the help they need, leading to wrongful convictions and excessive sentences, even in capital cases. Racial disparities persist at every level from misdemeanor arrests to executions. The “tough on crime” policies that led to mass incarceration are rooted in the belief that black and brown people are inherently guilty and dangerous—and that belief still drives excessive sentencing policies today. Today, nearly 10 million Americans—including millions of children—have an immediate family member in jail or prison. More than 4.5 million Americans can’t vote because of a past conviction. And each year, we lose $87 million in GDP due to mass incarceration.
25% The U.S. has 5% of the world’s population, but nearly 25% of its incarcerated population.
$87B U.S. spending on jails and prisons reached $87 billion in 2015, an increase of 1000% from $7.4 billion spent in 1975.
2.2M In 1972, there were only 200,000 people incarcerated in the U.S. Today that number has grown to 2.2 million.
433% From 1985 to 2015, the number of women in jails and prisons in the U.S. grew 433%. Over 225,000 women are incarcerated today.
Racial Justice We must truthfully confront our history of racial injustice before we can repair its painful legacy. EJI believes we need a new era of truth and justice that starts with confronting our history of racial injustice. American history begins with the creation of a myth to absolve white settlers of the genocide of Native Americans: the false belief that nonwhite people are less human than white people. This belief in racial hierarchy survived slavery’s abolition, fueled racial terror lynchings, demanded legally codified segregation, and spawned our mass incarceration crisis. The dehumanizing myth of racial difference endures today because we don’t talk about it. EJI is working to change that. We’re exposing the myth and its toxic legacy in our reports, videos, and website. Our Community Remembrance Project is empowering communities to change the physical landscape to honestly reflect our history. And we’re using the power of place to inspire people to visit Montgomery, Alabama, to learn and reflect in our Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice.
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Public Education We are haunted by our history of racial injustice in America because we don’t talk about it. Ending mass incarceration and achieving equality, justice, and fairness for all Americans starts with learning and sharing the truth about our past. For more than 30 years, EJI lawyers have been winning relief for clients by telling their stories. We’ve overturned wrongful convictions and unfair sentences by exposing official misconduct and racial bias. We’ve had tremendous success in courtrooms across the country. But America needs a deeper and broader narrative shift to move from mass incarceration into an era of truth and justice: we need to honestly confront our history. To help people learn, share, talk, and teach about America’s history of racial injustice and its legacy, we built a powerful tool kit that includes groundbreaking reports and interactive websites, lesson plans, and powerful films like Just Mercy and the HBO documentary True Justice that underscore the urgency of reform. We’re also harnessing the power of place to change a physical landscape littered with thousands of Confederate monuments but next to none about slavery or lynching. We’re working with communities to install historical markers and collect soil from lynching sites, and in 2018, we opened the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice. More than 600,000 people have come to Montgomery to learn, remember, and commit to truth telling about our history.
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The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, which opened to the public in April 2018, is the nation’s first memorial dedicated to the legacy of enslaved black people, people terrorized by lynching, African Americans humiliated by racial segregation and Jim Crow, and people of color burdened with contemporary presumptions of guilt and police violence. Work on the memorial began in 2010 when Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) staff began investigating thousands of racial terror lynchings in the American South, many of which had never been documented. EJI was interested not only in lynching incidents, but in understanding the terror and trauma this sanctioned violence against the black community created. Six million black people fled the South as refugees and exiles as a result of these “racial terror lynchings.” This research ultimately produced Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror
in 2015, which documented thousands of racial terror lynchings in twelve states. Since the report’s release, EJI has supplemented its original research by documenting racial terror lynchings in states outside the Deep South. EJI staff have also embarked on a project to memorialize this history by visiting hundreds of lynching sites, collecting soil, and erecting public markers, in an effort to reshape the cultural landscape with monuments and memorials that more truthfully and accurately reflect our history. The Memorial for Peace and Justice was conceived with the hope of creating a sober, meaningful site where people can gather and reflect on America’s history of racial inequality. EJI partnered with artists like Kwame AkotoBamfo whose sculpture on slavery confronts visitors when they first enter the memorial. EJI then leads visitors on a journey from slavery, through lynching and racial terror, with text, narrative, and monuments to the
are engraved on the columns. The memorial is more than a static monument. In the six-acre park surrounding the memorial is a field of identical monuments, waiting to be claimed and installed in the counties they represent. Over time, the national memorial will serve as a report on which parts of the country have confronted the truth of this terror and which have not. EJI is inviting counties across the country to claim their monuments and install them in their permanent homes in the counties they represent. Eventually, this process will change the built environment of the Deep South and beyond to more honestly reflect our history. EJI staff are already in conversation with dozens of communities seeking to claim their monuments. EJI approaches these conversations—and all of our community education work—with thought and care. EJI shares historical and educational material with community members, encourages participation from communities of color, and works with partners to find an appropriate geographic location for each monument to ensure that the process of claiming monuments helps local communities engage with this history in a constructive and meaningful way.
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lynching victims in America. In the center of the site, visitors encounter a memorial square, built in collaboration with MASS Design Group. The memorial experience continues through the civil rights era made visible with a sculpture by Dana King dedicated to the women who sustained the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Finally, the memorial journey ends with contemporary issues of police violence and racially biased criminal justice expressed in a final work created by Hank Willis Thomas. The memorial displays writing from Toni Morrison and Elizabeth Alexander, words from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and a reflection space in honor of Ida B. Wells. Set on a six-acre site, the memorial uses sculpture, art, and design to contextualize racial terror. The site includes a memorial square with 800 six-foot monuments to symbolize thousands of racial terror lynching victims in the United States and the counties and states where this terrorism took place. The memorial structure on the center of the site is constructed of over 800 corten steel monuments, one for each county in the United States where a racial terror lynching took place. The names of the lynching victims
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The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration opened to the public in April 2018, in Montgomery, Alabama. The 11,000-squarefoot museum is built on the site of a former warehouse where enslaved black people were imprisoned, and is located midway between an historic slave market and the main river dock and train station where tens of thousands of enslaved people were trafficked during the height of the domestic slave trade. Montgomery’s proximity to the fertile Black Belt region, where slaveowners amassed large enslaved populations to work the rich soil, elevated Montgomery’s prominence in domestic trafficking, and by 1860, Montgomery was the capital of the domestic slave trade in Alabama, one of the two largest slave-owning states in America. The Legacy Museum employs unique technology to dramatize the enslavement of African Americans, the evolution of racial terror lynchings, legalized racial segregation and racial hierarchy in America. Relying on rarely seen first-person accounts of the domestic slave trade, EJI’s critically acclaimed research materials, videography, exhibits on lynching and recently composed content on segregation, this museum explores the history of racial inequality and its relationship to a range of contemporary issues
from mass incarceration to police violence. Visitors encounter a powerful sense of place when they enter the museum and confront slave pen replicas, where you can see, hear, and get close to what it was like to be imprisoned awaiting sale at the nearby auction block. Firstperson accounts from enslaved people narrate the sights and sounds of the domestic slave trade. Extensive research and videography helps visitors understand the racial terrorism of lynching, and the humiliation of the Jim Crow South. Compelling visuals and datarich exhibits give visitors the opportunity to investigate America’s history of racial injustice and its legacy, drawing dynamic connections across generations of Americans impacted by the narrative of racial difference. An unparalleled resource for researchers, the museum houses the nation’s most comprehensive collection of data on lynching. It also presents previously unseen archival information about the domestic slave trade brought to life through new technology. As a physical site and an outreach program, the Legacy Museum is an engine for education about the legacy of racial inequality and for the truth and reconciliation that leads to real solutions to contemporary problems.
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The History & Reconciliation Initiative at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Richmond Contributed by The Rev. Charles Dupree, D.Min., Rector
People meditate for different reasons: to reduce stress, promote stillness, be more kind or patient, or, feel a deeper sense of connection to self, planet, and other. My meditation practice, at least at this time, is in alignment with a definition that rings true for me: we meditate to become more aware of what is happening within us and around us. Even if you aren’t a practitioner of meditation, it’s not difficult to see how awareness and responsiveness is crucial in our city, our country, and our world. What is happening within us and around us? St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in downtown Richmond, which has historically been known as the “Church of the Confederacy,” has been discerning the responses to this question for quite some time. Like many denominations, the Episcopal Church is waking up to its racial history. Under the leadership of our Presiding Bishop, the Most Reverend Michael Curry, the Episcopal Church is actively taking steps to explore our racial past and work toward reconciliation. According to Bishop Curry, “Reconciliation is the spiritual practice of seeking loving, liberating and lifegiving relationship with God and one another, and striving to heal and transform injustice and brokenness in ourselves, our communities, institutions, and society.” For St. Paul’s, this work finds its voice through the History and Reconciliation Initiative (HRI). The mission of HRI is to trace and acknowledge the racial history of St Paul’s in order to repair, restore, and seek
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reconciliation with God, with each other, and with the broader community. What is happening within us and around us? How can a church that is so historically linked to white supremacy be a church that is called to welcome all people today? What is HRI doing now? Over the past several years a team of dedicated St.
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St. Paul’s is just one of many communities that is influenced by Bryan Stevenson’s witness. justice and peace and respecting the dignity of every human being.” But this is the work to which the church is called. St. Paul’s thanks Mr. Stevenson for his work, which I define as a lifegiving ministry. He leads us on a courageous journey of examination and honesty. May we follow in his footsteps, and in those of others, as each human heart is turned toward shaping a better now, and an even better future. Learn more about the History and Reconciliation Initiative: www.stpaulsrva.org/HRI
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Paul’s parishioners has examined the church’s historical records and produced reports on St. Paul’s racial history, including its memorial windows and plaques. As we have become aware of what is within us, HRI has worked to keep aware of what is around us by sponsoring critical discussions on race and our society today, and by visiting historic sites that are fearlessly confronting the legacy of racism in America. Most recently, thirty-three St. Paul’s pilgrims travelled to the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama. Next steps for HRI will include a process of a congregation-wide reading of the HRI reports, and determining appropriate and authentic steps toward justice. St. Paul’s is just one of many communities that is influenced by Bryan Stevenson’s witness. It is not easy work, even in a Christian community that dedicates itself to striving “for
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About The Richmond Region Speech & Debate Initiative From Patrick Henry’s historic and game-changing speech to America’s largest and most respected non-profit public forum, Richmonders have long understood that the ability to speak with power and confidence and civilly articulate and debate ideas and points of view is critical to a functioning democracy and a successful life. In that local tradition, we believe our region’s students should have access to strong speech and debate programs in our public schools. These programs teach research, critical thinking, construction of logical arguments, assessment of audience, self esteem, poise and presentation, and engagement in world events—skills which build better students, better college candidates, better employees, and better citizens.
The goal of this Initiative is for every public middle and high school in the region to have competitive speech and debate programs by 2025—the 250th anniversary of Patrick Henry’s game-changing American speech.
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