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We need to talk about an injustice - Bryan Stevenson

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In an engaging and personal talk, human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson shares some hard truths about America's justice system, starting with a massive imbalance along racial lines: a third of the country's Black male population has been incarcerated at some point in their lives. These issues are rarely talked about with this level of candor, insight and persuasiveness.

How can the lessons from personal experiences with discrimination and injustice, like those of the speaker's grandmother, be used to motivate and inform activism in the present?

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