Join JWI’s New York Young Women’s Leadership Network to see "Just Mercy”. The Network will be seeing the movie together at the 7:20 pm showing this Friday, January 10th at AMC Kips Bay 15, and following the movie there will be a guided discussion in a nearby location to unpack the film. Tickets are free for a limited number of guests, and will be distributed ahead of the film.
“Just Mercy” is based on the powerful and thought-provoking true story of young lawyer Bryan Stevenson and his history-making battle for justice. After graduating from Harvard, Bryan had his pick of lucrative jobs. Instead, he heads to Alabama to defend those wrongly condemned or who were not afforded proper representation, with the support of local advocate Eva Ansley. One of his first, and most incendiary, cases is that of Walter McMillian, who, in 1987, was sentenced to die for the notorious murder of an 18-year-old girl, despite a preponderance of evidence proving his innocence and the fact that the main testimony against him came from a criminal with a motive to lie. In the years that follow, Bryan becomes embroiled in a labyrinth of legal and political maneuverings, as well as overt and unabashed racism as he fights for Walter, and others like him, with the odds—and the system—stacked against them.
