The landscape in Montgomery and in the South is just saturated with imagery. Markers are everywhere. There's a marker for the first Confederate post ….

I do talk and think a lot about the legacy before me. I feel like if I didn't know that people had been in Montgomery sixty years ago trying to do si….

Somebody has to stand when other people are sitting. Somebody has to speak when other people are quiet..

We are all implicated when we allow other people to be mistreated. An absence of compassion can corrupt the decency of a community, a state, a nation….

When I stepped into this world, I saw that we were all burdened by a certain kind of indifference to the plight of poor people. We were burdened by a….

Once we had a rail station in Montgomery that connected to Columbus and went all the way up to Virginia, slave traders could transport thousands of s….

Montgomery's unique role in the domestic slave trade was that it was the first community that had a rail line that connected the Deep South to the mi….

The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned..

Lynching is an important aspect of racial history and racial inequality in America, because it was visible, it was so public, it was so dramatic, and….

In many ways, we've been taught to think that the real question is, do people deserve to die for the crimes they've committed? And that's a very sens….

My parents lived in a poor rural community on the Eastern Shore, and schools were still segregated. And I remember when lawyers came into our communi….

Knowing what I know about the people who have come before me, and the people who came before them, and what they had to do, it changes my capacity to….

If you love your country, then you need to be thinking a lot more critically about what justice..

We all have a responsibility to create a just society.

Because my great-grandparents were enslaved people, the legacy of slavery was something that didn't seem impersonal or disconnected. That's what moti….

Sometimes the facts of the crime are so distracting - there's been some tragic murder or horrific incident, and people aren't required to think as ca….

The reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a punishment that is shaped by the constraints of poverty, race, geography and ….

I think there is a contempt for the human dignity of people who were enslaved. You couldn't see them as fully human and so you didn't respect their d….

Finally I got to the point where I said, I'd like to start a project where we can actually talk about race and poverty, not through the lens of a par….

I've come to understand and to believe that each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done. I believe that for every person on the planet. I….

Intuitively we all like to seek the things that are comfortable rather than uncomfortable. But I do think there is a way of saying that if I believe ….