Contributed by Martha Toll, Executive Director, Butler Family Fund - The North Carolina Racial Justice Act (RJA) -- which passed in August 2009 and allows capital defendants, for the first time, to use statistical evidence to show systemic bias in the death penalty -- shines a bright light on the long history of racial bias in America’s criminal justice system.  The RJA tells the story of what happens when funders come together to support human rights advocacy. Read more.