Stephen Bright Interview: Insights on the Legal System and The Struggle for Fairness

President of the Southern Center for Human Rights, Stephen Bright, discusses race discrimination in the courts, the death penalty, mass incarceration, and the difference between law and justice. He talks about the tremendous difference Bryan Stevenson has made for people in the courts, especially children.

Stephen B. Bright is an American lawyer who has represented people in capital cases in the state and federal courts since 1979, including four before the Supreme Court, including three involving racial discrimination in jury selection, that were decided in favor of his clients. He was director of the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta from 1982 to 2005, and as its president and senior counsel from 2006 to 2016. He has taught courses on capital punishment and issues of race and poverty in criminal cases as a visiting professor of law at the Georgetown Law Center and a visiting lecturer at Yale Law School. He received the American Bar Association’s Thurgood Marshall Award in 1998.

From the HBO / Kunhardt Film Foundation (KFF) Documentary “True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality,” a look at how the Alabama attorney struggles to create more fairness in the legal system.

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