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'Just Mercy' Lawyer Asks America To Reckon With Its Racist Past & Present

'Just Mercy' Lawyer Asks America To Reckon With Its Racist Past & Present

Released Monday, 20th January 2020
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'Just Mercy' Lawyer Asks America To Reckon With Its Racist Past & Present

'Just Mercy' Lawyer Asks America To Reckon With Its Racist Past & Present

'Just Mercy' Lawyer Asks America To Reckon With Its Racist Past & Present

'Just Mercy' Lawyer Asks America To Reckon With Its Racist Past & Present

Monday, 20th January 2020
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Public interest attorney Bryan Stevenson is the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, which represents people who have been illegally convicted, unfairly sentenced or abused in state jails and prisons. In 2018, EJI founded a museum and monument in Montgomery, Ala., to address the atrocities of slavery, lynching and segregation. "We need to create institutions in this country that motivate more people to say 'Never again,'" he says. Stevenson's 2014 memoir 'Just Mercy' is now a movie starring Michael B. Jordan.
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