Democracy. That is a shame. It is a disgrace. It is really an open scandal. And we need to do something about that. I would totally embrace the comment that we need you as much as we can, first of all to change our policies we dont incarcerate so many people. And secondly for those people have been incarcerated i think we do over stigmatize them. We do hurt their ability to come out of prison and get on with the gainful, productive life. I wholeheartedly embrace the sentiment of that collect. Host gelled in florida. Caller good morning. I have a question for professor kennedy. Some of us look towards affirmative action us to blacks entering university circuit. I happened to be one who graduated from a Major University, white Major University in the state of ohio. This was before affirmative action. Far too many times there is nothing said about those of us who were participants in the collegiate atmosphere, collegiate i guess academia, that existed before affirmative action. What is hi
For our live coverage of the Miami Book Fair. And welcome to day to as live coverage of the 2014 Miami Book Fair civil. This weekend our 17th year in a row of live coverage by the way, 25 authors in 20 hours of live coverage. Today, panelists include New York Times book review editor pamela paul, Walter Mosley, matt bai, charles grow, among others, and to offer College Opportunities for you today. Randall kennedy of harvard is most recent book is called for discrimination and David Rothkopf irans Foreign Policy magazine will be talking about u. S. Foreign policy. Full schedule of todays live coverage from miami is available at our website, booktv. Org. All they wanted and get updates of behind the scenes photos at booktv. Org twitter handle. You can also join us at facebook. Com booktv. If youre in the area, come on down. Cspan bus is here, we are passing a great book bags and some other things. Would love to have you come and say hi at the chamber of commerce day here in miami. The su
Stevenson. I want to learn a little bit about you. A private nonprofit Human Rights Organization that provides Legal Services mostly to incarcerated people in the deep south. We represent children prosecuted as adults and are trying to change the way we talk about race and poverty. We focus mostly on criminal justice reform. Headquartered in montgomery, alabama. How many people on death row . Actually the largest death row per capita in the country. Country. It is unique in that it is the only state that has a provision that allows elected trial judges to override juries. Juries. We have about 200 people on death row. We invited you want to talk about the book. Your first book. The story focuses on Walter Mcmillan. There was a murder. A young white woman was murdered. The police could not solve the crime. A great deal of pressure. They were talking about impeaching the sheriff sheriff, and we think they decided to arrest someone and Walter Mcmillan became that man. He was having an int
Right now we want to meet and talk with author host we want to meet and talk with author mr. Stevenson. We want to learn a little bit about you the equal Justice Initiative a private nonprofit Human Rights Organization that provides Legal Services mostly to incarcerated people in the deep south. We represent children prosecuted as adults and are trying to change the way we talk about race and poverty. We focus mostly on criminal justice reform. Headquartered in montgomery, alabama. How many people on death row . Actually the largest death row per capita in the country. Country. It is unique in that it is the only state that has a provision that allows elected trial judges to override juries. Juries. We have about 200 people on death row. We invited you want to talk about the book. Your first book. The story focuses on Walter Mcmillan. There was a murder. A young white woman was murdered. The police could not solve the crime. A great deal of pressure. They were talking about impeaching
A great deal of pressure. They were talking about impeaching the sheriff, sheriff, and we think they decided to arrest someone, and Walter Mcmillan became that man. He was having an interracial affair with a young white woman which brought him to the attention of law enforcement, so he was arrested and put on death row before the trial. The only case where ive had a a client put on death row. I was shocked by that fact. I was shocked by the fact that at the time of the crime he was 11 miles away with 20 people from his church raising money. It would have been so much better if he had been by himself. We feel like we have been convicted. The third the third thing that got me plugged into this case, as soon as i filed a notice of appearance i got a call from the judge who told me he did not want me involved. He was convicted and sentenced to death. We got involved after the sentence. The book is about our efforts to expose his wrongful conviction. I talk about the irony of this case. A b