As a human rights lawyer, professor, humanitarian, and author, Bryan Stevenson MPP/JD 1985 LLD 2015 works to fight poverty and challenge racial discrimination in the criminal justice system. He also ...

Among the honorees were social justice activist Bryan Stevenson, who received the Lifetime Achievement Award, and songwriter and producer Nile Rogers, who received the Global Citizenship Award ...

“I believe that each person is more than the worst thing they’ve ever done,” says Bryan Stevenson, a lawyer and the founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative. Stevenson ...

Bryan Stevenson MPP/JD 1985 worked for decades to bring justice via the courtroom. Now, with the opening of the nation’s first museum dedicated to the legacy of slavery and the victims of lynching, he ...

New York City is renowned as a global center of finance, commerce and culture, but its role in slavery is far lesser known.   Although the slave trade is typically associated […] ...