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Just Mercy Book Review and its Impact on the Black Lives Matter Movement

By Stacey RamirezWeb Content Contributor Every year, Texas State University announces a new theme for its Common Experience initiative, and with it a book that embodies that theme. For the 2017- 2018 year the theme was “The Search for Justice: Our Response to Crime in the 21st Century” and the book chosen was Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson. Right now, I think there is […]

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My Experience with Anthony Graves

By Allison Johnson Blog Content Contributor On October 10th, Anthony Graves spoke at Evans Auditorium about his experience on death row for a crime he had not committed. It was a normal day for Anthony Graves when someone told him the police were looking for him. He went to the authorities to ask about what was going on, and there it happened; he was arrested for a crime he had […]

October 17, 2017 27