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‘ Slavery Didn’t End in 1865. It Evolved’

ART: INTERVIEW

THE ALABAMA BASED Equal Justice Initiative has partnered with the Brooklyn Museum in New York City on the groundbreaking “The Legacy of Lynching: Confronting Racial Terror in America.” Newsweek spoke with Bryan Stevenson, the founder of EJI and a public interest lawyer, about the unsettling exhibition, one that confronts visitors with America’s history of exclusion, discrimination and brutality. As James Baldwin wrote in the quote that opens the show: “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

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