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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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"You Have the Right to Know Your Rights: Bryan Stevenson"
08/20/2019
Paper Magazine
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Slavery gave America a fear of black people and a taste for violent punishment. Both still define our criminal-justice system."
08/14/2019
New York Times Magazine
Author: Bryan Stevenson
"The Struggle Continues: Bryan Stevenson Speaks On True Justice And Tradition"
08/12/2019
Essence
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"50 States of True Crime"
07/26/2019
New York Times
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Race, History, and Memories of a Virginia Girlhood"
07/18/2019
The Atlantic
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Bryan Stevenson's 'True Justice'"
06/26/2019
WNYC: All of It (audio)
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality"
06/26/2019
Fortune
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Civil rights hero Bryan Stevenson gets movie star moment with HBO documentary 'True Justice'"
06/26/2019
Los Angeles Times
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Bryan Stevenson on His ‘Not Entirely Rational’ Quest for Justice"
06/26/2019
New York Magazine
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Bryan Stevenson: 'The North won the Civil War, but the South won the narrative war' on history of racism"
06/24/2019
CBS News
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Court papers: Training document designed to exclude black jurors in murder case"
06/08/2019
Winston-Salem Journal
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"With slave ship Clotilda found, the work of healing a community begins"
05/31/2019
National Geographic
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Revitalizing Montgomery as It Embraces Its Past"
05/21/2019
New York Times
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Yes, white supremacists are emboldened. But that’s not the whole story in America today."
05/05/2019
Washington Post
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Her grandfather was expelled from school for asking why his textbooks had no black people. Today she teaches at Harvard."
05/03/2019
Washington Post
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"James Byrd Jr.'s Killer, John William King, Petitions U.S. Supreme Court for Last-Minute Stay of Imminent Execution"
04/24/2019
Newsweek
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"US condemns ‘broken’ Alabama prison system"
04/03/2019
Associated Press
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"How Ta-Nehisi Coates turned reparations from a punchline into a policy objective"
03/20/2019
Washington Post
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"We live in the same country, but in two different worlds"
03/15/2019
Boston Globe
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"The Democratic Candidates Should Tell Us Now Who They’ll Put on the Supreme Court"
03/10/2019
New York Times
Experts: Rachel Barkow and Bryan Stevenson
"Supreme Court rules for Alabama death row inmate"
02/27/2019
Associated Press
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Supreme Court blocks death sentence for murderer with dementia who can't remember crime"
02/27/2019
USA Today
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Revisiting the American Nazi Supporters of 'A Night at the Garden'"
02/22/2019
New Yorker
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Bryan Stevenson Wants the U.S. to Face Its History"
01/16/2019
New York Times
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Passing of the Anti-Lynching Bill—The Year of Righting Wrongs"
01/11/2019
Ebony
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Why it took a century to pass an anti-lynching law"
12/28/2018
Washington Post
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Senate passes bill to make lynching a federal hate crime"
12/20/2018
ABC News
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Senate Approves Bipartisan Criminal Justice Bill"
12/19/2018
NPR
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Pushing America to face its racist past"
12/10/2018
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Bryan Stevenson says 'slavery didn't end in 1865, it just evolved'"
12/07/2018
CNN
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"America Is Racist: So What Do We Do Now? Activist Lawyer Bryan Stevenson Has Some Answers"
11/29/2018
Newsweek
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Memorializing the Present: Montgomery’s New Legacy Museum"
11/19/2018
LA Review of Books
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Bryan Stevenson Gives Moving People's Champion Speech"
11/11/2018
E! News (video)
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"The Crusade of Al Sharpton's Brother"
11/04/2018
New York Magazine
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Why Civil Rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson prefers working at female-dominated firms"
10/30/2018
Quartz
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"‘That Moment When’ a future civil rights lawyer learns the value of showing up"
10/09/2018
PBS News Hour
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Justices consider whether a man with dementia may be put to death"
10/05/2018
Economist
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Should A State Execute A Killer So Impaired He No Longer Recalls Crime?"
10/02/2018
NPR
Expert: Bryan Stevenson
"Bryan Stevenson seeks to help young readers understand mass incarceration"
09/19/2018
CBS News
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Lawyer and activist Bryan Stevenson on building racial justice: 'This work is just beginning'"
09/18/2018
Salon
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Bryan Stevenson calls on lawyers to get uncomfortable and deepen commitment to justice"
08/04/2018
ABA Journal
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Meet the 31 People Who Are Changing the South"
07/26/2018
Time
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"Witness a history of racial injustice at two new museums in Alabama and Mississippi"
07/22/2018
Los Angeles Times
Featured: Bryan Stevenson
"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