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he will head to georgia to talk about that. i m bill hemmer. we re on different floors. we ll take turns, right? this is officially a podcast. dana: it is a brand-new podcast. my home during the five this week as well. it is small which fits me just perfectly. i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. the white house sees georgia as ground zero in its push for election reform. president biden and vice president harris will speak there this afternoon as the white house pressures democrats to get on board even if it means breaking the filibuster. republicans calling all of it an attempt to distract from a failing agenda. hysterical claim that our democracy is in crisis rings hollow. it would destroy a key feature of american government forever. this is nothing more than an election power grab by the democrats. they want to federalize the election. not about improving access to the ballot, the ballot changing the political dynamic in this country to crow ....
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 ....
the omicron variant. and then murdering ahmaud arbery, a black man, have been sentenced to life in prison. and their neighbour roddy bryan were convicted of felony murder. they had chased mr arbery while he was jogging, before he was shot to death. their defence had claimed they feared he was planning to commit a crime. the mcmichaels will spend life in prison without the possibility of parole. roddy bryan will serve life, but does have the possibility of parole. here s georgia superior court judge timothy walmsley, outlining some of the evidence from the trial. there s a frame where i believe ahmaud arbery, it looks to be if he s 20 yards out that may be close 30 yards out it s the frame of travis mcmichael lifting the shotgun to fire at ahmaud arbery. and you watch that with context and when i say context , after hearing the evidence in this case and thinking about a young man that had been running at that point for almost five minutes and it is a chilling, ....
to win the academy award for best actor, has died, at the age of 94. we take a look back at his life s work. hello and welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. in the us, three white men who were convicted of chasing and then murdering ahmaud arbery, a black man, in the state of georgia, have been sentenced to life in prison. travis mcmichael, his father gregory, and their neighbour, roddy bryan, were convicted of felony murder. they had chased mr arbery while he was jogging, before he was shot to death. their defence had claimed they feared he was planning to commit a crime. the mcmichaels will spend life in prison without the possibility of parole, but roddy bryan will serve life, but does have the possibility of parole. here s georgia superior court judge timothy walmsley outlining some of the evidence from the trial. there s a frame where i believe ahmaud arbery, it looks to be if he s 20 yards out that may be close 30 yards out it s the ....