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NYU School of Law and its faculty, students, alumni, centers and programs are frequently featured in the media. The following lists recent news stories, interviews and op-eds.

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"Why Congress failed nearly 200 times to make lynching a federal crime"
07/05/2018
Washington Post
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"'Do Some Uncomfortable and Inconvenient Things': A Civil Rights Champion's Call to Action for CEOs"
06/26/2018
Fortune
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Leading the Way in the Fight for Human Rights"
05/24/2018
New York Times
Featured: Bryan Stevenson and Robin Steinberg '82
"On a Hill in Alabama, the Lynched Haunt Us"
05/06/2018
Rolling Stone
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Bryan Stevenson calls lynchings domestic terrorism. Here's what he hopes to address with a memorial honoring black people who were killed"
04/26/2018
Los Angeles Times
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"The sadism of white men: Why American must atone for its lynchings"
04/26/2018
The Guardian
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"A Lynching Memorial Is Opening. The Country Has Never Seen Anything Like It."
04/25/2018
New York Times
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Bryan Stevenson wants us to confront our country's racial terrorism and then say, 'Never again'"
04/24/2018
Washington Post
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Inside the Memorial to Victims of Lynching"
04/08/2018
60 Minutes
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"'I went to death row for 28 years through no fault of my own'"
04/01/2018
The Guardian
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Bryan Stevenson on What Well-Meaning White People Need to Know About Race"
02/06/2018
Pacific Standard
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Execution delayed for Alabama inmate in '85 officer killing"
01/25/2018
Associated Press
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Supreme Court halts execution of Alabama inmate who has dementia"
01/25/2018
Chicago Tribune
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Everybody Knows About Alabama"
01/08/2018
American Prospect
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"A Sheriff, a Mystery Check and a Blogger Who Cried Foul"
12/14/2017
New York Times
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"A New National Museum and Memorial In Alabama Will Finally Look Back at Racial Terror In America"
11/22/2017
Atlanta Black Star
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Slavery, Lynching and Racism in America Will Be Inescapable at EJI's Memorial and Museum"
11/13/2017
Newsweek
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Shocked by the racism of past generations? Look around"
11/07/2017
Washington Post
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Monumental Questions"
10/31/2017
WNYC (audio)
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"A Monument to America’s 4,384 Known Victims of Lynching"
10/04/2017
The Atlantic
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Lynching in the United States, Explained"
10/02/2017
Teen Vogue
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Is it time to tear down monuments to the Confederacy?"
09/10/2017
CBS News
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"The museum of 'Enslavement and Mass Incarceration' will open in 2018 – and not a moment too soon"
09/01/2017
Salon
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"'It’s Hard to Look Back': Why MacArthur Genius Bryan Stevenson Is Building America’s First Slavery Museum"
08/31/2017
Artnet News
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror, at the Brooklyn Museum"
08/29/2017
The Village Voice
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Trevor Noah and the Equal Justice Initiative explain how current talk of 'Southern heritage' ignores all the dead black people"
08/23/2017
The AV Club
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Analysis: History of racial inequality still haunts us, public interest lawyer says"
08/16/2017
CBS News
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"The Legacy of Lynching in America"
08/14/2017
WNYC
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Ex-Alabama Death Row Inmate Seeking Compensation for ‘30 Years of Hell’"
08/04/2017
NBC News
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"How art is being used to explore America's shameful legacy of lynching"
07/31/2017
The Guardian
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"‘The Legacy of Lynching,’ at the Brooklyn Museum, Documents Violent Racism"
07/26/2017
The New York Times
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Facing America's History of Racial Violence"
07/26/2017
WNYC
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Brooklyn Museum Partners With Equal Justice Initiative to Survey ‘The Legacy of Lynching’"
07/25/2017
Art News
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Exhibit on History of Lynchings in America Coming to Brooklyn Museum"
07/13/2017
DNA info
Featured: Bryan Stevenson, Equal Justice Initiative
"Why Lawyers and Judges are Saving the World"
07/06/2017
The Huffington Post
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Summer Reading Books: The Ties That Bind Colleges"
07/03/2017
The New York Times
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Summer Reading For The College-Bound"
06/30/2017
NPR
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"How the terror of lynchings in the past haunt us today and our future"
06/27/2017
The Washington Post
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"A Presumption of Guilt"
06/26/2017
The New York Review of Books
Author: Bryan Stevenson
"Free Your Mind Summer Reading List"
06/22/2017
Fortune
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Google Just Released An Interactive Map Of Lynchings In The US"
06/13/2017
Buzzfeed News
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Equal Justice Initiative, backed by Google.org, launches ‘Lynching in America’"
06/13/2017
TechCrunch
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Agnes Gund Sells a Lichtenstein to Start Criminal Justice Fund"
06/11/2017
The New York Times
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"This Could Have Been Me"
06/08/2017
Bleacher Report
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Lawyer Mobilizes Nonprofit to Force Reckoning on History of Racism"
06/06/2017
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Bryan Stevenson on Memorializing Our Country's Shameful History"
05/26/2017
WNYC
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Bryan Stevenson explains how it feels to grow up black amid Confederate monuments"
05/23/2017
Vox
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Why Confederate monuments are coming down"
05/19/2017
PBS NewsHour
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"After Arkansas Executions, Lawyer Criticizes Use Of Capital Punishment"
05/01/2017
NPR
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"On America’s racial terrorism, ‘our silence has condemned us’"
04/13/2017
PBS NewsHour
Featured: Bryan Stevenson