“Just Mercy” (2020)–“It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven”
A powerful true story about the 1989 founding of Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), based upon Bryan Stevenson’s 2014 bestseller of the same name, Just Mercy. EJI, located in Montgomery, Alabama –and situated near the Museum of Peace and Justice (a Stevenson project focusing on the US history of lynching and slavery)– is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States. EIJ challenges racial and economic injustice, protects basic human rights for the most vulnerable...