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• UW-Madison Students Learn About Racial Justice Through Art at Wheelhouse Studios

  Posted on November 11, 2015

  The Morgridge Center for Public Service recently published an article about the opportunity that 18 UW-Madison freshman students had this fall to […]

• Solitary Confinement Cell at Madison Public Library

  Posted on November 9, 2015

  A recent Wisconsin State Journal article, “Around Town: Solitary confinement crisis brought home by model cell” by Samara Kalk Derby, profiled the life-size, walk-in […]

• Upcoming Community Workshop in Middleton on Racial Inequalities

  Posted on November 4, 2015

  On October 12th, the Middleton Public Library held a community panel discussion of Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy. This event sparked much discussion […]

• 9th Grade English Students at West High School Read and Respond to Just Mercy

  Posted on November 3, 2015

  Post written by Kim Schopf and Lynn Glueck, Madison West High School Every year, Madison Metropolitan School District students in English classes […]

• An Evening With Bryan Stevenson a Success

  Posted on October 29, 2015

  Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy, visited UW-Madison on Monday, October 26th, and for many, the culminating event of the day, Stevenson’s […]

• Mia Birdsong’s TED Talk: Connections to Just Mercy

  Posted on October 23, 2015

  As a book concerned with the corruption and problems plaguing America’s criminal justice system, Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy also discusses the contexts […]

• UW-Madison Welcomes ‘Go Big Read’ Author Bryan Stevenson on October 26th

  Posted on October 21, 2015

  This press release was written by Jenny Price from University Communications. Go Big Read is bigger than ever in its seventh year. […]

• WPR’s “Chapter a Day” Reads Just Mercy

  Posted on October 20, 2015

  Starting Monday October 19th – Friday November 6th, Lydia Woodland of Wisconsin Public Radio, is reading a chapter of Just Mercy each day as […]

• Just Mercy in the Community

  Posted on October 19, 2015

  Monday October 12th, 200+ people attended “And Justice for All: A Community Panel Discussion” hosted by Middleton Public Library. The audience was […]

• Business Students Create Just Mercy Themed Art at Wheelhouse Studios

  Posted on October 12, 2015

  Today and tomorrow a business class will be meeting in Wheelhouse Studios to create art-based learning projects focused on the book Just Mercy. Wheelhouse […]