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is how to change it. my guest is bryan stevenson, civil rights lawyer and founder of the equaljustice initiative. will equality ever be more than a dream? bryan stevenson in montgomery, alabama, welcome to hardtalk. it s great to be with you. it s a pleasure to have you. bryan, i think i m right in saying that you yourself were brought up, raised, at the tail end of segregation. that is a reality that you experienced. we now live in the era of deeply polarised politics in the united states, but also of black lives matter. as a civil rights lawyer and advocate, do you feel america is travelling in the right direction? well, we ve made some progress, but we have enormous challenges to overcome. you re absolutely right, i was born at a time when black children were not allowed to attend public schools. i started my education in a coloured school. there were no high schools for black kids when my dad was a teenager and it took an intervention of law lawyers coming in and ....
understanding it is one thing, the real challenge is how to change it. my guest is bryan stevenson, civil rights lawyer and founder of the equaljustice initiative. will equality ever be more than a dream? bryan stevenson in montgomery, alabama, welcome to hardtalk. it s great to be with you. it s a pleasure to have you. bryan, i think i m right in saying that you yourself were brought up, raised, at the tail end of segregation. that is a reality that you experienced. we now live in the era of deeply polarised politics in the united states, but also of black lives matter. as a civil rights lawyer and advocate, do you feel america is travelling in the right direction? well, we ve made some progress, but we have enormous challenges to overcome. you re absolutely right, i was born at a time when black children were not allowed to attend public schools. i started my education in a coloured school. there were no high schools for black kids when my dad was a teenager and it to ....
my guest is bryan stevenson, civil rights lawyer and founder of the equaljustice initiative. will equality ever be more than a dream? bryan stevenson in montgomery, alabama, welcome to hardtalk. it s great to be with you. it s a pleasure to have you. bryan, i think i m right in saying that you yourself were brought up, raised, at the tail end of segregation. that is a reality that you experienced. we now live in the era of deeply polarised politics in the united states, but also of black lives matter. as a civil rights lawyer and advocate, do you feel america is travelling in the right direction? challenges to overcome. you re absolutely right, i was born at a time when black children were not allowed to attend public schools. i started my education in a coloured school. there were no high schools for black kids when my dad was a teenager and it took an intervention of law lawyers coming in and enforcing supreme court rulings that ban that kind of racial segregation, ....
now on bbc news, it s time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. black and white americans have always had vastly different experiences within their country s justice system. you see it in so many different data sets, from police violence to incarceration to sentencing. it s impossible to understand without reference to america s history of institutionalised racism. understanding it is one thing, the real challenge is how to change it. my guest is bryan stevenson, civil rights lawyer and founder of the equaljustice initiative. will equality ever be more than a dream? bryan stevenson in montgomery, alabama, welcome to hardtalk. it s great to be with you. it s a pleasure to have you. bryan, i think i m right in saying that you yourself were brought up, raised, at the tail end of segregation. that is a reality that you experienced. we now live in the era of deeply polarised politics in the united states, but also of black lives matter. as a civil rights la ....
first an explosive day in the kyle rittenhouse trial. closing arguments were delivered. for 3 years a rogue prosecutor named robert mueller wasted taxpayers dollars to make a case against president trump based on false premises and a phoney dossier and fisa applications. prosecutors on tv they are often portrayed as protectors of truth and justice. that must have been robert mueller. maybe it s the defense attorney side of me speaking. prosecutors and district attorneys are drunk on their own power. the rittenhouse prosecutor thomas binger. they have to convince you that rosenbaum was going to take that gun and use it on the defendant because they know you can t claim self-defense against an unarmed man like this. you lose the right to self-defense when you are the one who brought the gun when you created the danger, when you are provoking other people. laura: a second year law student would know that s wrong. that lawyer should be sanctioned for stupidity and wasti ....