EJI's Racial Justice Work Continues
EJI’s racial justice work has expanded and gained national attention through our community education projects, public presentations, and reports. EJI believes now is the time to advance the fight for racial equality, confront our nation's history of racial bigotry, and begin an era of truth and justice. Watch our video on the legacy of racial injustice.
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EJI Releases New Tools for Educators and Students
America needs a deeper and broader narrative shift to move toward an era of truth and justice: we need to honestly confront our history. To help people learn, share, talk, and teach about America’s history of racial injustice and its legacy during this important time, EJI has partnered with DonorsChoose to provide racial justice materials to teachers, developed new racial justice education tools on Flipgrid, and created a visual reading guide for our latest report Reconstruction in America for educators and others.
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Justice Department Condemns Excessive Force by Alabama Prison Guards
Conditions at Alabama’s prisons violate the Constitution, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. For the second time in 18 months, the Justice Department notified Alabama Governor Kay Ivey this summer that it has reasonable cause to believe that incarcerated people are subjected to excessive force at the hands of prison staff. Federal investigators issued a report that details dozens of instances of excessive force, which “often result in serious injuries and sometimes death.”
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The Truth About Confederate-Named Schools
Every day, thousands of children across the U.S. attend schools named in honor of Confederate leaders who fought to preserve slavery and racial hierarchy in America. Simply by going to school, young people are forced to embrace the names, likenesses, and symbols of men who championed white supremacy. EJI has identified more than 240 schools across the U.S. that still bear the names of Confederate leaders.
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EJI Documentary True Justice Wins Emmy Award
We are proud to announce that the HBO documentary film True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality has been honored with an Emmy Award. The film, which premiered in 2019, won the Emmy for Outstanding Social Issue Documentary. True Justice follows 30 years of EJI’s work on behalf of the poor, the incarcerated, and the condemned. The full documentary is available to watch at no cost online.
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Report: Reconstruction in America
We've seen an incredibly positive response to our latest report, Reconstruction in America, which documents nearly 2,000 more confirmed racial terror lynchings of Black people in America than previously detailed. The report examines the 12 years following the Civil War, when lawlessness and violence perpetrated by white leaders created an American future of racial hierarchy, white supremacy, and Jim Crow laws—an era from which our nation has yet to recover.
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