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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 ....
now on bbc news it s 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 lawyer and a ....
we start in the uk. borisjohnson has faced many questions about whether covid rules were observed in downing street. it s understood around 30 people gathered for this event. labour has called on borisjohnson to call come clean. borisjohnson has faced many questions of about whether covid rules were observed. i can rules were observed. i can understand rules were observed. i can understand how rules were observed. i can| understand how infuriating rules were observed. i can i understand how infuriating it rules were observed. ice i understand how infuriating it must be to think that the people who have been setting the rules have not been following the rules. that was december 2021. 19 months earlier in may 2020, england was in its first lockdown. there were already over 30,000 covid deaths. 20th may was the hottest day of the year so far. and at 5pm, culture secretary 0liver dowden led the government s daily covid update and reiterated the rules. you can meet o ....
pandemic just because it s worldwide. it s not slowing up very much. i m confident we re on the right track. the american public is scrambling and showing signs that they are fed up with the management. our frustrated constituents cannot find rapid tests when they need them. tests are hard to find. they re costly. people are unable to find the at-home tests in pharmacies, online. people cannot find a test. i m getting texts as we speak saying we re not getting tests. you ve experienced that, too. senator rand paul was in the hearing today. he s on that committee. we saw another spirited exchange with dr. fauci that is getting attention. we ll talk to him about that. the responses is tests will be in the mail soon but omicron could be gone by them. first to chad pergram. hi, chad. good afternoon. the leading republican on the senate health committee warned of a tough hearing today. i m at the end of my rope. i think you ll see today most of my colleagues ar ....
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, ....