A perilous path: talking race, inequality, and the law pdf

Bryan Stevenson (nacido el 14 de noviembre de 1959) es un abogado estadounidense, activista por la justicia social, profesor de derecho en la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Nueva York y fundador y director ejecutivo de Equal Justice Initiative. Con sede en Montgomery, Alabama, ha cuestionado los prejuicios contra los pobres y las minorías en el sistema de justicia penal, especialmente los niños. Ha ayudado a lograr decisiones de la Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos que prohíben sentenciar a niños menores de 18 años a muerte o cadena perpetua sin libertad condicional. Ha asistido en casos que han salvado a docenas de presos de la pena de muerte, defendido a los pobres y desarrollado litigios de reforma basados ​​en la comunidad destinados a mejorar la administración de la justicia penal.
Inició el Monumento Nacional por la Paz y la Justicia en Montgomery, que honra los nombres de cada uno de los más de 4.000 afroamericanos linchados en los doce estados del sur entre 1877 y 1950. Argumenta que la historia de la esclavitud y los linchamientos ha influido en los posteriores alta tasa de sentencias de muerte en el Sur, donde se ha aplicado de manera desproporcionada a las minorías. Un museo relacionado, The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration, ofrece interpretaciones para mostrar la conexión entre el período de linchamientos posterior a la Reconstrucción y la alta tasa de ejecuciones y encarcelamiento de personas de color en los Estados Unidos.
En noviembre de 2018, Stevenson recibió el premio Benjamin Franklin de la Sociedad Filosófica Estadounidense como "tambor mayor por la justicia y la misericordia". En 2020, compartió el premio Right Livelihood con Nasrin Sotoudeh, Ales Bialiatski y Lottie Cunningham Wren.

A perilous path: talking race, inequality, and the law pdf por Bryan Stevenson

Preface / by Anthony C. Thompson -- A perilous path : race, inequality, and the law -- Postscript / by Anthony C. Thompson -- Acknowledgments.;A no-holds-barred, red-hot discussion of race in America today from some of the leading names in the field, including the bestselling author of Just Mercy This blisteringly candid discussion of the American dilemma in the age of Trump brings together the head of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the former attorney general of the United States, a bestselling author and death penalty lawyer, and a star professor for an honest conversation the country desperately needs to hear. Drawing on their collective decades of work on civil rights issues as well as personal histories of rising from poverty and oppression, these leading lights of the legal profession and the fight for racial justice talk about the importance of reclaiming the racial narrative and keeping our eyes on the horizon as we work for justice in an unjust time. Covering topics as varied as "the commonality of pain," "when lawyers are heroes," and the concept of an "equality dividend" that is due to people of color for helping America brand itself internationally as a country of diversity and acceptance, Ifill, Lynch, Stevenson, and Thompson also explore topics such as "when did 'public' become a dirty word" (hint, it has something to do with serving people of color), "you know what Jeff Sessions is going to say," and "what it means to be a civil rights lawyer in the age of Trump." Building on Stevenson's hugely successful Just Mercy, Lynch's national platform at the Justice Department, Ifill's role as one of the leading defenders of civil rights in the country, and the occasion of Thompson's launch of a new center on race, inequality, and the law at the NYU School of Law, A Perilous Path will speak loudly and clearly to everyone concerned about America's perpetual fault line.