Good News About Racial Justice

In 2017, New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu began to rid his city of several Confederate Army monuments. It was the culmination of a two-year legal battle that ultimately came down to a City Council vote. 

One study found that over 70% of wrongful convictions in the US can be at least partly blamed on incorrect eyewitness testimony.

In 1995, he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a nonprofit organization that seeks fair sentences for minorities, the poor, and, especially, children who find themselves in the justice system.