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'Just Mercy' Tells Story Of Lawyer Bryan Stevenson

The new film comes out Christmas Day.
by Parker Riley
03.30.20
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After 30 Years on Death Row, Exonerated Man…

Alabama has yet to compensate Anthony Ray Hinton, who spent 30 years on death row for a crime he did…
by Joshua Adams
08.10.17
2016 John Jay Medal For Justice Award

Bryan Stevenson’s EJI Launches ‘Lynching in America’ Site…

"“We had mobs of thousands of people gathering in courthouse yards and fields and doing horrific things to people, and…
by Angela Bronner Helm
06.15.17
Memphis Cityscapes And City Views

Ex-Segregationist Mississippi Gov. William Winter Among 2016 National…

The 93-year-old activist was honored Thursday for his work in civil rights at the Cannon Center for the Performing Arts…
by ionelholloway
10.21.16
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WATCH: A History Of Lynching In 5 Minutes

“Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror” unflinchingly explores America’s brutal history of lynching and provides a powerful…
by Angela Bronner Helm
10.11.16