Bryan Stevenson on the Possibility of Equality

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This year, Time Magazine named Bryan Stevenson as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Stevenson is the founder of the Montgomery-based Equal Justice Initiative. That group works on behalf of indigent defendants and people who haven’t received fair trials. They were instrumental in This week, the weekly newspaper WELD talked with Stevenson about his bestselling memoir and his social justice work. WELD editor Nick Patterson tells WBHM’s Rachel Lindley more about their conversation and Stevenson’s hopes for the justice system.

 

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