Bryan Stevenson calls for honest reckoning with America's history of slavery and racial injustice
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Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, discusses the urgent need for America to confront its legacy of slavery and racial injustice. He argues that without an honest accounting of history—including the darkest chapters like slavery and lynching—the country cannot move forward. The article highlights his work in Montgomery, Alabama, a former major slave trading hub, where he has worked to establish memorials and historical markers to counterbalance the numerous Confederate monuments that dominate the landscape.
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· 2 pulledWe have to now fight to correct the historic record, to have an honest accounting of what happened to our parents and grandparents and their parents.
Because without an honest accounting, we will not make it to the next step.
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