July 13, 2010
Today in Kansas City, Missouri, the NAACP awarded EJI Director Bryan Stevenson the William Robert Ming Award for Advocacy at the opening plenary...
June 22, 2010
Read the Report: Illegal Racial Discrimination in Jury Selection: A Continuing Legacy
Nearly 135 years after Congress passed the Civil Rights...
April 5, 2010
Bryan Stevenson, right, on Bill Moyers Journal on PBS.
On April 2, 2010, EJI's Bryan Stevenson discussed the status of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr...
February 2, 2010
Marsha Colby, pictured with two of her six children in 1997, prior to being falsely accused of killing her seventh child at birth.
Capital murder...
January 14, 2010
EJI urges our supporters to contact our sister organization Partners in Health (PIH) which is coordinating emergency services for the victims of the...
January 7, 2010
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held on January 5, 2010, that Washington State's felon disenfranchisement law violates the...
November 6, 2009
Nearly half of all children in the United States and 90% of African American children will rely on food stamps at some point during childhood, and...
September 8, 2009
On September 4, 2009, the Alabama Supreme Court reversed the conviction and sentence imposed on Marsha Colby, who was convicted of capital murder...
July 30, 2009
On July 24, 2009, a deaf man in a Mobile store bathroom was attacked by police with a Taser gun and pepper spray after he failed to respond to police...
July 24, 2009
More people are being arrested for living on the streets as homelessness rises, says the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty (NLCHP) in...
