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UREC Reads – Will begin Friday, January 14 with JUST MERCY by Bryan Stevenson

December 10, 2021 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Lawyer Bryan Stevenson gives a first-person account of his decades helping marginalized Americans who have been unfairly and harshly punished by the U.S. criminal justice system, which disproportionately targets people of color and poor people. More information about Just Mercy is available at https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/just-mercy/summary/

This link, https://youtu.be/x5DfVmtKgzw, will take you to a recording of Bryan Stevenson’s 2016 Anne and Loren Kieve Distinguished Speaker Lecture on race and the criminal justice system. Bryan Stevenson is an acclaimed public interest lawyer and founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative. A roundtable conversation featuring Jennifer Eberhardt, Gary Segura, Robert Weisberg, JD ’79, Bryan Stevenson, and Katie Couric follows Bryan Stevenson’s keynote address.

Copies of Just Mercy are available b contacting Paul Stewart – 518-621-7793 or via https://undergroundrailroadhistory.org/contact/

You are invited to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: UREC Reads
Time: Jan 14, 2022, 05:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) and succeeding months on the 2nd Friday

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Details

Date:
December 10, 2021
Time:
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Organizer

Mary Liz Stewart
Phone
518-621-7793

Venue

Online via Zoom