down for 30 years, and not feel some responsibility for what you've done. >> pelley: attorney bryan stevenson worked on ray hinton's case for 16 years. stevenson started the equal justice initiative, one of a growing number of legal organizations overturning false convictions. >> stevenson: they need support- need medical support, they need mental health care. they need to know that their victimization, their abuse has been taken seriously. >> ken ireland: it was just absolutely unimaginable and i couldn't even explain the horror of it. >> pelley: ken ireland lost 21 years. he was misidentified by convicted in a 1986 rape and murder, dna proved his innocence. >> goorn >> good morning, sir. >> pelley: because of the rare perspective of an innocent man who's done hard time, the governor put ireland on connecticut's parole board. >> at some point in your life, sir, you have to step up. >> pelley: so this is your new cell? >> ireland: well, yeah, for eight hours a day. >> pelley: it took five years to get this job. at first, he lived with his sister and he found work as a counselor for troubled k

bryan stevenson is founder and executive director of the equal justice initiative. tell me what it is you think is the most important question for this country as it considers race injustice. >> race injustice, how are we going to recover from our legacy of racial inequality, this history of racial injustice that has infected all of us, that has comcompromised all our abilitieo see one another fairly? i think that's really the question bev never taken on. we've never tried to confront the legacy of slavery. i think we need to talk about slavery. i don't think we ever dealt with tht legacy. slavery wiz something that was really horrific in this country. for me the great evil of american slavery wasn't forced labor, the great evil of american slavery was the narrative of racial difference we created to legit mate it, the ideology of white supremacy and that consciousness, that narrative was never addressed by the 13th amendment and that's why i argue slavery didn't end in 1865, it evolved. >> rose: and exists in the minds by what we think about the questions of race a

coming up for you in this half hour, bryan stevenson of the equal justice initiative is here in studio helps innocent people get out of prison. how the nation can move forward after last week's shooting and the impact of the black lives matter movement. >> a remarkable man. >>> plus, wounds that have not healed. michelle miller takes us to a university crossroads, after a controversial deal to save itself. >>> come to show you some of this morning's headlines from around the globe. britain's daily maris says thousands mourned a matador buried in central spain. 29-year-old victor gorio, his wife in the crowd. the first killed since 1980. >> hard to watch. >>> joe perry recovering today after collapsing during a show. videos show him stumbling around back stage last night here in new york city while playing with the band hollywood vampires. perry reportedly lost consciousness. the 65-year-old was take ton a hospital. perry was sick before the show but is in stable condition right now. >>> and calling the soccer final portugal's greatest night. it didn't start well after portugal's start

bryan stevenson, the author of "just mercy and the founder of the equal justice initiative" has said, we ignore the account at our peril. so we'll not ignore it. please join me in can being lawrence leamer. >> thank you very much. last year after charleston president obama said that slavery is america's original sin. it's a pity it took so long for a president to say that and it was our first african-american president who did so. but it was -- did not make it nonetheless true. as i i've investigated this book about lynching in alabama, i've gone back to the early history of slavery and followed it. one thing that i find important or crucial to it is the row over sexuality in slavery. in the hundreds of -- the 300 years of slavery, the slavemasters would come down and essentially have their way with the women in the slave quarters. by the time of the civil war there was a large mixed blood population in the south, millions and millions of people have mixed blood. i remember when i was doing the book i was living in montgomery, alabama and met this colonel. black with a white wife. tha

bryan stevenson, author of chest mercy and founder of equal justice initiative has had we ignore the detailed account at our peril. we will not ignore it. please join me to welcome someone. [applause] >> thank you very much. slavery is america's original sin. it is a pity it took so long for a president to say that it was her first african-american president to did so but did not make it less true. as i've investigated this book about managing in alabama, i've gone back to the early history of slavery and followed it. one thing i find important or crucial to it is the sexuality in slavery. the years of slavery, the slave masters with calm down essentially have their way with the women in the slave quarters. at a time of the civil war, there was a large mixed population in the south. millions and millions of people of mixed blood. do this in my camry in alabama and that this black with white eyes. -- white wife. he had a plantation. i thought it would go out to the plantation. we go to the living room and there is this a portrait. the two families, a black family and my family. who ar

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