This series of images was created for our #StandAgainstRacism campaign to correspond with the inspiring message delivered by Bryan Stevenson of the Equal Justice Initiative during our Heart to Heart Racial Justice Breakfast.
Mr. Stevenson delivered 4 keys to racial justice work:
1. Get closer to where inequality, poverty, abuse and suffering is evident. There is "power in proximity."
2. Change the narrative of the conversation about our problems. Acknowledge that we have been driven by the politics of fear and anger in our country, and confront the history of injustice. We must talk more openly about the racial divide that still exists.
3. We have to protect our hope. People need to know we are fighting for justice. We need to be witnesses against hopelessness.
4. We each need to take responsibility for doing uncomfortable but necessary things, and inconvenient things. Bryan said that "we need to embrace the broken among us - and they will save us."