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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.
May 23, 2024 · Public interest attorney Bryan Stevenson, the founder and executive director of the Alabama-based Equal Justice Initiative, will receive the 2024 Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize from the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Dec 24, 2019 · Stevenson, whom Jordan plays in the legal drama “Just Mercy,” has led one of the most successful efforts to combat mass incarceration and racial injustices in the United States legal system. In 1989, he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a nonprofit.
- Bryan Stevenson
- Walter Mcmillian
- Karen Kelly
- Ralph Myers
The narrator of Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson, is a Harvard-educatedlawyer who fights for the rights of the accused, especially those with lifesentences and on death row. Twenty-three years old at the beginning of thememoir, Stevenson goes on to found the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), one ofAmerica’s most prominent nonprofit advocacy groups. Having...
Described erroneously by a judge as a member of the “Dixie mafia,” McMillianis actually a humble Black pulpwood trader, falsely accused of killing RondaMorrison, a white eighteen-year-old college student. As a successful, sociablelocal business owner, McMillian, also known as “Johnny D,” is a pillar of thelocal Black community in Monroeville. He is...
Karen Kelly is the married, younger white woman with whom Walter McMillianhas an affair, which eventually leads to his demonization in Monroeville. Afterher relationship with McMillian, Kelley, who is traumatized by her husbandmaking her affair public, forms a relationship with Ralph Myers. Both Kelly andMyers are convicted for killing another whit...
An unpredictable but not completely unsympathetic character, Ralph Myers is a petty criminal who is the chief witness against Walter McMillian during Ronda Morrison’s murder trial. Given to grandiosity and unusual in appearance, with his deep burn scars, Myers initially offers damning testimony against McMillian. Significantly, though Myers claims ...
Apr 9, 2024 · Bryan Stevenson is the founder and Executive Director of the Montgomery, Alabama based Equal Justice Initiative. He is a multi-award-winning lawyer, author, public speaker, and advocate for justice system reform, and has argued five cases in front of the Supreme Court - winning favorable judgements in all but one.
Jan 6, 2024 · Stevenson founded in Montgomery a legal clinic, the Equal Justice Initiative, which made strides on prisoners’ behalf. His legal team won the release of 135 wrongly condemned inmates on death ...
Dec 23, 2019 · Based on the book by Equal Justice Initiative founder Bryan Stevenson, the Hollywood film, produced by Jeff Skoll’s Participant Media, will be out in theaters nationwide in January. Michael B. Jordan plays Stevenson in the film, which also features Jamie Foxx and Brie Larson.
