All the Ugly Details

True Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight for Equality by Kunhardt Film Foundation
June 26, 2019

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‍Equal Justice Under Law. That is the phrase engraved on the front of the U.S. Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C. However, as American history has shown, and as Bryan Stevenson has further uncovered in both his 2014 book, Just Mercy, and his 2019 documentary, True Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight for Equality, these words do not equally hold true for people of color, for children, and for the poor. In a September 2017 Klingbrief submission by Christopher R. Mizell, summarizing Just Mercy, readers were urged to "get proximate" in order to connect to a larger purpose and be courageous and persistent in the fight for equitable justice. True Justice provides a visual and aural narrative to Stevenson's book and life's work. The documentary gets to the core of why he has dedicated his personal journey to the plight of those who have lacked resources and access to quality legal services and fair sentencing. Additionally, True Justice dives deeper into the historical context of how racial hierarchy has biased judicial systems and tells a moving story of how we can overcome these obstacles by "understand[ing] all the ugly details so we can one day claim something really beautiful."

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