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  1. apnews.com › article › entertainment-jamie-foxx'Just Mercy,' drama of racial injustice, to be free in June

    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.

  2. www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2016/08/22Bryan Stevenson and the Legacy of Lynching | The New Yorker

    Aug 15, 2016 · In 1989, a twenty-nine-year-old African-American civil-rights lawyer named Bryan Stevenson moved to Montgomery, Alabama, and founded an organization that became the Equal Justice Initiative. It...

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  4. jlc.org › news › meet-winners-bryan-stevensonMeet the Winners: Bryan Stevenson | Juvenile Law Center

    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.

  5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Equal_Justice_InitiativeEqual Justice Initiative - Wikipedia

    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.

  6. deadline.com › 2019 › 04HBO’s ‘True Justice’, Docu About Bryan Stevenson & Equal ...

    Apr 29, 2019 · For more than three decades, Alabama public interest attorney Bryan Stevenson has advocated on behalf of the poor, the incarcerated and the condemned, seeking to eradicate racial discrimination...

  7. restorativejusticeontherise.org › bryan-stevensonBryan Stevenson of the Equal Justice Initiative - Restorative ...

    Rachel Maddow Show (On Atty General Eric Holder & mass incarceration) TED Talk. Bryan A. Stevenson is the founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative, a private, non-profit organization headquartered in Montgomery, Alabama, and is a professor at New York University School of Law. He has gained national acclaim for his work ...

  8. www.cbsnews.com › news › bryan-stevenson-we-are-allBryan Stevenson: "The North won the Civil War, but the South ...

    Jun 24, 2019 · Bryan Stevenson, an attorney and the founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative who is the subject of the new HBO documentary "True Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight for...