I want to lift up an interview that is both urgent and enduring: “Bryan Stevenson on why Black history is under attack,” a powerful interview sponsored by The Grio (whose mission is to inform, amplify, entertain, and empower Black America. Let me say as a white person, they are informing and empowering me as well.)
In the interview, Bryan Stevenson brings his full moral authority, historical grounding, and human compassion to a subject that sits at the heart of our national moment. His words are calm, precise, and unflinching. This is what courage sounds like when it is rooted in decades of action and personal clarity. He is a man worth following.
Stevenson speaks not as a commentator, but as someone who has spent his life confronting the consequences of historical erasure through his work with the Equal Justice Initiative. He makes clear that attacks on Black history are not abstract cultural debates. They are efforts to weaken our collective capacity for truth, accountability, and repair. His articulation is powerful because it is inseparable from the lives he has defended and the stories he has insisted we remember.
The interview is elevated by the skill of Natasha S. Alford, whose questions are thoughtful, grounded, and address the needs of the day. It is a reminder of what journalism can be when it serves understanding rather than spectacle.
The timing of this conversation could not be more important. As school curricula, public monuments, and historical narratives become political battlegrounds, Stevenson reminds us that history is not about blame. It is about truth telling. And truth telling is a prerequisite for justice.
More than anything, this interview makes clear that Bryan Stevenson is a heroic leader of our time… and we need leaders. His leadership is built through decades of disciplined action, including his work to create the EJI Legacy Sites, which stand as physical, public acts of truth telling in a culture that is actively working to erase our Black history.
These sites do not merely preserve history. They ask something of us. They invite reflection, reckoning, and responsibility. In a moment when so many leaders trade in outrage, violence, or avoidance, Stevenson shows us a different path. Moral clarity grounded in compassion. Courage anchored in service. An unwavering commitment to justice and action.
Watch the interview here:
https://youtu.be/BVEFpkJN3oE
Learn more about the Legacy Sites here:
https://legacysites.eji.org/about/
