Hinton also has insights about being confined in prison, which is immeasurably harder than COVID-19 distancing restrictions. In hating, you’re allowing someone to dictate your joy.” I see guys like that and I feel really sorry that they have been misled. Those guys at the Capitol, they were crying out for help. “People are raised around lies and they believe those lies,” he said. Capitol in early January, Hinton shared his take on how these issues are reflected in today’s headlines.
Just six days after the deadly riot at the U.S. “The Sun Does Shine” focuses on unjust incarceration, societal unrest, the difficulties of confinement and racial inequality. The talks are free, though registration is required (see breakout box). Community members from throughout the college’s district are also encouraged to participate in this “group read,” and the book’s author is invited to visit CMC campuses for live presentations.īecause of COVID-19 health precautions, this year’s Common Reader author appearances will be held in a virtual format on Feb. There, he works with attorney and EJI Executive Director Bryan Stevenson, author of the acclaimed memoir “Just Mercy.” Stevenson spent years on Hinton’s case and was responsible for his conviction being overturned.Įvery year since 2007, a committee of CMC employees has selected a book to read together, the Common Reader.
In addition to writing, Hinton is a speaker and a community educator at the Equal Justice Initiative based in Montgomery, Alabama. The book is a New York Times bestseller and is on the Oprah Book Club list. Hinton’s memoir, “The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row,” written with Lara Love Hardin, is Colorado Mountain College’s 2021 Common Reader. In 2015, he was finally exonerated and freed. In 1985, he was falsely convicted of two counts of capital murder and sentenced to die by the electric chair at Holman State Prison in Alabama. Incarcerated on death row for a crime you didn’t commit. This past pandemic year has been hard on us all – often isolated at home, not seeing friends and family, missing important milestones, under the threat of serious illness or even death. CMC’s Common Reader welcomes ‘The Sun Does Shine’ author Falsely convicted Anthony Ray Hinton will give live virtual talks Feb. 24-25 with Anthony Ray Hinton, author of New York Times bestseller “The Sun Does Shine.” The memoir is CMC’s 2021 Common Reader and is about the 30 years Hinton spent on death row for crimes he did not commit.
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