HBO - True Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight for Equality
Wednesday, August 19, 2020 • 29 Av 5780
7:30 PM - 9:00 PMVirtual
"This feature documentary focuses on Stevenson’s life and career – particularly his indictment of the U.S. criminal justice system for its role in codifying modern systemic racism – and tracks the intertwined histories of slavery, lynching, segregation and mass incarceration. Highlighting watershed moments involving cases and clients, True Justice offers a rare glimpse into the human struggle that is required when the poor and people of color are wrongly condemned or unfairly sentenced, and explores the personal toll it has taken on Stevenson and his colleagues.
The film chronicles Stevenson’s work in Alabama, birthplace of the civil rights movement and home to the Equal Justice Initiative, as well as the early influences that drove him to become an advocate for the poor and the incarcerated. As a young lawyer in the 1980s, he witnessed firsthand how courts unfairly applied the death penalty based on race and how the Supreme Court ultimately declared that racial bias in the administration of the death penalty was “inevitable”.”
Upon registering for this virtual event, you will be sent instructions with links to view the documentary in advance and to join the zoom call for the discussion which will be led by Tina Strawn, who is an antiracism educator, social justice activist and yoga teacher. A large part of Tina's work centers around the Equal Justice Initiative, as Tina is the Founder of Legacy Trips which are 3 day antiracism + yoga trips to the National Museum of Peace and Justice and the Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration in Montgomery, Alabama, where she leads participants using the practice and philosophy of yoga as tools to dismantle racism.
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