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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.
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 ...
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Jan 10, 2020 · January 10, 2020. This article contains spoilers. If there’s one thing to take away from Just Mercy, the film that tells the story of Equal Justice Initiative founder Bryan Stevenson, it’s this: Atticus Finch was made up. Bryan Stevenson, on the other hand, is quite real.
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Apr 30, 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...
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.
Apr 21, 2016 · by Pamela Rothbard April 21, 2016. Changing the world — it’s a daunting concept. What can one person do? Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, has found his path as a public interest attorney routinely challenging racial discrimination in the criminal justice system.
Jun 25, 2019 · Attorney and activist Bryan Stevenson on how America’s racial sins live on in our criminal justice system — and his belief that a transformation is possible.
