The Art World: What If...?!

The Art World: What If...?! with Bryan Stevenson


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In this episode, we visit the Legacy Sites in Montgomery, Alabama, including the newly opened Freedom Monument Sculpture Park, a 17-acre site on the banks of the Alabama River. We interview their founder, the lawyer and civil rights hero, Bryan Stevenson, who says that a founding narrative of racial difference was created in America that "was like an infection. I believe the infection has spread. We've never treated that infection and the consequences of it are still with us today." The US has never created cultural sites that have "motivated people to say, 'never again can we tolerate racial bigotry, can we tolerate racial violence, can we tolerate the kind of indifference to these basic human rights'. So, that's what we're trying to achieve." Hope and resilience inform the Legacy Sites. "I've always argued that hopelessness is the enemy of justice and that hope is an essential feature of what we do. I have to believe things I haven't seen," Stevenson says. "I think we need an era of truth and justice, truth and reconciliation, truth and restoration, truth and repair," Stevenson adds. "But we can't skip the truth-telling part."

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