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Sunday, November 9, 2014

TED Radio Hour: How To Remedy Race-Based Injustice

"Bad Black People." Why Bill O'Reilly Is Wrong Even When He's Right"

Jon Stewart Interviews Bryan Stevenson On "Black Failure"  http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/10/jon-stewart-interviews-bryan-stevenson.html

More From This Episode

Part 4 of the TED Radio Hour episode Solving It.
About Bryan Stevenson's TED Talk
Lawyer Bryan Stevenson shares some hard truths about how America's criminal justice system works against the poor and people of color. He argues that these issues are wrapped up in America's unexamined history.
About Bryan Stevenson
Lawyer Bryan Stevenson has dedicated his career to helping the poor, the incarcerated and the condemned. He's the founder and executive director of theEqual Justice Initiative, an Alabama-based group that has won major legal challenges eliminating excessive and unfair sentencing, exonerating innocent prisoners on death row, and confronting abuse of the incarcerated and the mentally ill.
Stevenson's work fighting poverty and challenging racial discrimination in the criminal justice system has won him numerous awards, including a MacArthur fellowship and 14 honorary doctorate degrees.

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