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Nov 11, 2019 · After reading about the remarkable life and work of attorney Bryan Stevenson, who’s saved hundreds from prison, learn all about the case of the Central Park Five, a group of non-white teenagers who were wrongfully convicted of brutally raping a white woman in the 1980s.
- All That's Interesting
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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Jan 8, 2020 · Eva Ansley (played by Brie Larson) plays a large role in the film's fledgling Equal Justice Initiative, which provides legal representation to prisoners who may have been wrongly convicted of...
- Entertainment Reporter
Apr 3, 2015 · This morning, only days after Professor of Clinical Law Bryan Stevenson delivered a galvanizing talk about racial injustice at the Milbank Tweed Forum, his client Anthony Ray Hinton was released from prison due to lack of evidence after serving nearly 30 years on death row.
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.
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.
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. 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.
