Just Mercy : Powerful Motion Picture
Just Mercy is a 2019 movie based on a true story that took place in the late 80s and through the 90s in Alabama. Just Mercy stood out to me this week because it amplifies the black voices and experiences that are being shared throughout the world today and within the last few weeks during the black lives matter movement. I’ve had this movie recommended to me recently at protests and on Amazon Prime in their black history, hardship, and hope section available on their homepage. Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, Just Mercy shares the emotional, hopeful, and inspiring story of Bryan Stevenson, a Harvard civil rights law student graduate, fighting in defense of those wrongly convicted in Alabama and put onto death row. One of his first cases is that of Walter Mcmillian, a father of three and husband, is sentenced to die in 1987 for the murder of an 18-year-old-girl, despite a lack of evidence supporting this. Stevenson, originally from Delaware, quickly runs into racism and leg