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Jun 2, 2020 · In the film, Michael B. Jordan plays attorney Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, who helps a character played by Jamie Foxx. It’s based on Stevenson’s 2014 memoir “Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption,” one of the books that has rocketed to the top of best-seller lists as protests have swept the country.
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Before he graduated from the hallowed halls of Harvard Law School in 1985, Bryan Stevenson was born in Nov. 14, 1959 in the aftershock of the Jim Crow South. During the Great Migration, his family had relocated to Milton, Delaware, and systemic violence against the black community quickly shaped his views on justice. Brown v. Board of Education had...
Walter McMillian was a black man raised outside Monroeville, Alabama. He picked cotton before he was old enough to go to school, and in the 1970s he started his own pulpwood business. He wasn’t rich, but he was much more independent than most of the rest of the local black community — and much freer than the white people around him thought he had a...
The film Just Mercy,based on Bryan Stevenson’s book of the same name, focuses on his tireless pursuit of the truth in McMillian’s case, and that begins with the testimony of Ralph Myers. With no leads on who killed the white woman in Monroeville, police saw an opportunity with Myers after they arrested him on suspicion of another murder. During int...
Walter McMillian’s exoneration put a much-needed spotlight on racial injustice in the criminal justice system, and Bryan Stevenson has dedicated his career to the cause. With Stevenson at its helm, the Equal Justice Initiative has won more than 135 reversals, relief, or release from prison for people on death row, as well as relief for hundreds of ...
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Jan 12, 2020 · It stars Michael B. Jordan who plays Stevenson and Jamie Foxx as Walter McMillian, a black man awaiting execution on death row for a crime he didn’t commit. McMillian spent six years in prison...
The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) was founded in 1989 in Montgomery, Alabama, by attorney Bryan Stevenson, who has served as the organization's executive director ever since. [1] Stevenson has been working on Alabama defense cases since 1989 for the Southern Center for Human Rights and was director of its center for Alabama operations.
Aug 15, 2016 · Photograph by Ryan Pfluger for The New Yorker. In 1989, a twenty-nine-year-old African-American civil-rights lawyer named Bryan Stevenson moved to Montgomery, Alabama, and founded an...
Apr 3, 2015 · CNN, 4/3/15 “Alabama inmate free after 30 years on death row. How the case against him unraveled.” Washington Post, 4/3/15 “EJI Wins Release of Anthony Ray Hinton” Equal Justice Initiative, 4/2/15 “Former Alabama Death Row inmate Anthony Ray Hinton to be freed after new testing on bullets” AL.com, 4/2/15
Mar 19, 2024 · March 19, 2024. By Dipesh Ramdasani. In the realm of social justice, few names resonate as powerfully as lawyer and social justice activist, Bryan Stevenson. His relentless pursuit of equality...
