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Delaware’s Bryan Stevenson Delivers Keynote Speech at National Prayer Breakfast, Calls for Racial Justice

Lawyer Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Ala., speaks about his mission at The Summit on Race in America at the LBJ Presidential Library in 2019.
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Lawyer Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Ala., speaks about his mission at The Summit on Race in America at the LBJ Presidential Library in 2019.

Racial justice took center stage at this year’s National Prayer Breakfast in Washington with keynote speaker Bryan Stevenson, a former Delawarean who leads the Equal Justice Initiative. WHYY's Mark Eichmann has more from the Delaware Desk.

(Original air-date: 2/4/22)

Mark Eichmann has been covering news in Delaware for nearly 20 years. In addition to writing about Delaware for WHYY, Mark is deputy managing editor of WHYY’s Delaware desk in downtown Wilmington. Since starting at WHYY in 2008, he’s produced hundreds of stories for radio, TV, and web.