Michael B Jordan, Jamie Foxx take on wrongful convictions, racism in 'Just Mercy'

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The film is based on US civil rights attorney Bryan Stevenson's book 'Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption'. FMTNews

September 7, 2019 12:51 PM

Jordan plays real-life US civil rights attorney and social justice activist Bryan Stevenson in the film based on the latter’s 2014 book “Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption.” The film chronicles Stevenson’s efforts to wade through the legal and political morass that put McMillian, convicted of the murder of a white female store clerk, on death row for six years in Alabama, and fight the racial bias that kept him, and others like him, there.

 

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