Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
In theaters January 10
First to hit theaters this month is Just Mercy, a film adaptation of Bryan Stevenson’s bestselling and multiple award-winning memoir. Stevenson’s book – winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and winner of the NAACP Image Award for Nonfiction – recounts his experiences as a young lawyer and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative in Alabama, including one of his first and most important cases, William McMillian, a black man on death row who was wrongly accused of murdering a white woman. The film adaptation stars Michael B. Jordan as Stevenson and Jamie Foxx as McMillian.
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