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Most authors would jump at the chance to have their book adapted into a Hollywood film. But activist and attorney Bryan Stevenson, who wrote the memoir Just Mercy about his crusade to reform the criminal justice system, says he was prepared to walk away from any movie project that didn't meet certain standards. "I’d…

Kobe Bryant is teaming with the cast of Just Mercy to help promote Warner Bros’ critically acclaimed death row drama. The NBA champion, who won an Oscar for producing the 2017 animated short Dear Basketball, will host a screening for guild members January 6 in Los Angeles, an individual attached to the film told…

If you ever heard Bryan Stevenson speak, he stirs emotions. He delivers difficult-to-hear harsh truths but manages to line each word with a thread of hope — and his sentiment, although delivered with a mild-mannered even-handedness, is assertive and motivates change. A lawyer, activist and founder of the Equal Justice…

Lawyer, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative and author of Just Mercy Bryan Stevenson took the stage at CAA Amplify to talk about the Warner Bros. film based on his book. But before he was joined by the film’s stars Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Foxx and director and writer Destin Daniel Cretton, he talked about what…

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 in the criminal justice system. Now HBO Documentary Films is telling his story. Set to premiere June 26 on the premium cable…