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Just a few days until @janaya_khan joins us on campus for the #OneBookOneRichmond lecture! A limited number of tickets have just become available. Please e-mail Breona Walker at [email protected] to claim a ticket. First come, first served.


OneBook events next month include First Friday at UR Downtown (Sept. 7), CCE Brown Bag (Sept. 7), SpiderNiights viewing of "Black Panther" (Sept. 8), Wyatt T. Walker symposium (Sept. 13) and Urban Bush Women at the @ModlinCenter (Sept. 25-27)


Mark your calendars - find OneBook programming here: onebook.richmond.edu


Look for programming news to come soon about this year's selection, "When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir" by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele.


Part 3 by @ChrisDHamby: To Bankers, It’s Not Just A Court System, It’s A Gold Mine buzzfeed.com/chrishamby/not… via @ChrisDHamby @buzzfeednews


Timely story in today's Washington Post: wapo.st/eviction


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We're 😊😊 b/c we just learned our @racrutcher cover won 2016 nat'l CASE gold award for cover design. #spiderpride

URichmondMag's tweet image. We're 😊😊 b/c we just learned our @racrutcher cover won 2016 nat'l CASE gold award for cover design. #spiderpride

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Thank you to all service members for the sacrifices you have made and continue to make for our freedom!!

RichmondXCTF's tweet image. Thank you to all service members for the sacrifices you have made and continue to make for our freedom!!

Preparing this summer for events and teaching related to the new One Book selection: chaplaincy.richmond.edu/programs/one-b…


Magnificent work by Molly Field (@SPQRMC) to put together last night's @urOneBook talk by Bryan Stevenson.


Another good talk by Stevenson here: tinyurl.com/hgg872b


Powerful and inspirational lecture tonight by Bryan Stevenson. If you missed, look here for his Ted Talk tinyurl.com/ptbe85d


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"I believe the opposite of poverty is justice." - Bryan Stevenson


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Stevenson: to evaluate how we're doing on the rule of law we have to look at how we treat the poor and incarcerated.


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"If you want to do justice, you've got to go to the parts of town where there's suffering & despair."


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"We've allowed a narrative to emerge in this culture that says some of our children aren't children."


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Stevenson: The greatest evil of slavery was the creation of an ideology and narratives of racial difference and white supremacy.


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"Wealth, not culpability, shapes outcomes." - Bryan Stevenson


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Stevenson: we have to be willing to embrace our own brokenness and know that we are not only the sum of the worst things we have done.


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"We honor what it means to do justice when we get close to the places where injustice has been going on too long." - Bryan Stevenson


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