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In this book I have taken true life events that have actually
occurred in my lifetime. My inspiration was about a real life game
of Russian roulette. The last soul survivor of five young teenage
boys was the one who told me his story. They did not all die from
the actual playing of the game, but it did cause the boys a deep
depression that took their lives, one by one. However, they did not
all die the way my book describes. In fact, one of the boys death's
was context I used from a real incident that took place when I was
growing up. He was my friend. This boy was being bullied by six
other teenage boys. After beating him up and ramming his head
through a plate glass window of the local paramount theater, he
decided to end it all and jump in front of a train. Bullying is a
serious matter that can effect young minds in ways that are so
horrible, you might not fi nd out what is really going on with
them, until it is too late. May Tommy rest in peace. But I could
not end this book here. I believe that when something bad happens,
there are always good things to fall in its place. So I threw a few
twists into my writings. There is a forest on the outskirts of my
home town that was declared the historical cottonwoods, in which I
use as the setting for this book. Wandering through the forest one
day, I discovered a rather large naturally hollowed out cottonwood
tree. This is where one lucky boys adventures begin. The boys built
a real working elevator inside the tree that would lead to the
bottom of a two story tree house they also constructed. But it does
not end there. A magical book of secrets reveals itself. In this
book it tells the story about an underground city as it really
happens. Inside the hollow of the tree and approximately ten feet
below the surface, an underground elevator is activated, once the
owner of the book comes forward. This will lead to a hallway full
of doors, each leading to mystical places beyond your wildest
dreams. At the end of the first hallway is a rather large room
where all hallways begin. A hidden ceiling door slides open with a
thunderous ear deafening screech. It is the glass bottom of the
Fraser river, in which you are able to view underwater creatures in
their natural habitat. Down one of the hallways there is a door to
an ancient library that tells the history of the underground. It is
referred to as the spell room. There is also another door that
leads to the four seasons. A big wooden door separates the hallways
full of doors from an underground city called the Packs. Inside
this city is a rather unique arena where there is a hockey game
like you have never seen before.
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN, JAMIE FOXX, AND
BRIE LARSON.
A NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, BOSTON GLOBE, ESQUIRE, AND TIME BOOK
OF THE YEAR.
A #1 New York Times bestseller, this is a powerful, true story about
the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix
America’s broken justice system, as seen in the HBO documentary True
Justice.
The US has the highest rate of incarceration in the world. One in every
15 people born there today is expected to go to prison. For black men
this figure rises to one in 3. And Death Row is disproportionately
black, too.
Bryan Stevenson grew up poor in the racially segregated South. His
innate sense of justice made him a brilliant young lawyer, and one of
his first defendants was Walter McMillian, a black man sentenced to die
for the murder of a white woman ― a crime he insisted he didn’t commit.
The case drew Bryan into a tangle of conspiracy, political machination,
startling racial inequality, and legal brinkmanship ― and transformed
his understanding of mercy and justice forever.
At once an unforgettable account of an idealistic lawyer’s coming of
age and a moving portrait of the lives of those he has defended, Just
Mercy is an inspiring argument for compassion in the pursuit of justice.
The MacArthur grant-winning environmental justice activist's
riveting memoir of a life fighting for a cleaner future for
America's most vulnerable A Smithsonian Magazine Top Ten Best
Science Book of 2020 Catherine Coleman Flowers, a 2020 MacArthur
"genius," grew up in Lowndes County, Alabama, a place that's been
called "Bloody Lowndes" because of its violent, racist history.
Once the epicenter of the voting rights struggle, today it's Ground
Zero for a new movement that is also Flowers's life's work-a fight
to ensure human dignity through a right most Americans take for
granted: basic sanitation. Too many people, especially the rural
poor, lack an affordable means of disposing cleanly of the waste
from their toilets and, as a consequence, live amid filth. Flowers
calls this America's dirty secret. In this "powerful and moving
book" (Booklist), she tells the story of systemic class, racial,
and geographic prejudice that foster Third World conditions not
just in Alabama, but across America, in Appalachia, Central
California, coastal Florida, Alaska, the urban Midwest, and on
Native American reservations in the West. In this inspiring story
of the evolution of an activist, from country girl to student civil
rights organizer to environmental justice champion at Bryan
Stevenson's Equal Justice Initiative, Flowers shows how sanitation
is becoming too big a problem to ignore as climate change brings
sewage to more backyards-not only those of poor minorities.
The young adult adaptation of the acclaimed, #1 New York Times bestseller--now a major motion picture starring Michael B. Jordan, Jaime Foxx, and Brie Larson and the subject of an HBO documentary feature!
In this very personal work--adapted from the original #1 bestseller, which the New York Times calls "as compelling as To Kill a Mockingbird, and in some ways more so"--acclaimed lawyer and social justice advocate Bryan Stevenson offers a glimpse into the lives of the wrongfully imprisoned and his efforts to fight for their freedom.
Stevenson's story is one of working to protect basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society--the poor, the wrongly convicted, and those whose lives have been marked by discrimination and marginalization. Through this adaptation, young people of today will find themselves called to action and compassion in the pursuit of justice.
A portion of the proceeds of this book will go to charity to help in Stevenson's important work to benefit the voiceless and the vulnerable as they attempt to navigate the broken U.S. justice system.
America's problem with race has deep roots, with the country's
foundation tied to the near extermination of one race of people and
the enslavement of another. Racism is truly our nation's original
sin. "It's time we right this unacceptable wrong," says bestselling
author and leading Christian activist Jim Wallis. Fifty years ago,
Wallis was driven away from his faith by a white church that
considered dealing with racism to be taboo. His participation in
the civil rights movement brought him back when he discovered a
faith that commands racial justice. Yet as recent tragedies
confirm, we continue to suffer from the legacy of racism. The old
patterns of white privilege are colliding with the changing
demographics of a diverse nation. The church has been slow to
respond, and Sunday morning is still the most segregated hour of
the week. In America's Original Sin, Wallis offers a prophetic and
deeply personal call to action in overcoming the racism so
ingrained in American society. He speaks candidly to
Christians--particularly white Christians--urging them to cross a
new bridge toward racial justice and healing. Whenever divided
cultures and gridlocked power structures fail to end systemic sin,
faith communities can help lead the way to grassroots change.
Probing yet positive, biblically rooted yet highly practical, this
book shows people of faith how they can work together to overcome
the embedded racism in America, galvanizing a movement to cross the
bridge to a multiracial church and a new America.
A legendary lawyer and a legal scholar reveal the structural
failures that undermine justice in our criminal courts “An
urgently needed analysis of our collective failure to confront and
overcome racial bias and bigotry, the abuse of power, and the
multiple ways in which the death penalty’s profound unfairness
requires its abolition. You will discover Steve Bright’s passion,
brilliance, dedication, and tenacity when you read these pages.â€
—from the foreword by Bryan Stevenson Glenn Ford, a Black man,
spent thirty years on Louisiana’s death row for a crime he did
not commit. He was released in 2014—and given twenty
dollars—when prosecutors admitted they did not have a case
against him. Ford’s trial was a travesty. One of his
court-appointed lawyers specialized in oil and gas law and had
never tried a case. The other had been out of law school for only
two years. They had no funds for investigation or experts. The
prosecution struck all the Black prospective jurors to get the
all-white jury that sentenced Ford to death. In The Fear of Too
Much Justice, legendary death penalty lawyer Stephen B. Bright and
legal scholar James Kwak offer a heart-wrenching overview of how
the criminal legal system fails to live up to the values of
equality and justice. The book ranges from poor people squeezed for
cash by private probation companies because of trivial violations
to people executed in violation of the Constitution despite
overwhelming evidence of intellectual disability or mental illness.
They also show examples from around the country of places that are
making progress toward justice. With a foreword by Bryan Stevenson,
who worked for Bright at the Southern Center for Human Rights and
credits him for “[breaking] down the issues with the death
penalty simply but persuasively,†The Fear of Too Much Justice
offers a timely, trenchant, firsthand critique of our criminal
courts and points the way toward a more just future.
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A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us,
and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice--from one of
the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time
Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal
Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those
most desperate and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and
women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of our criminal
justice system. One of his first cases was that of Walter
McMillian, a young man who was sentenced to die for a notorious
murder he insisted he didn't commit. The case drew Bryan into a
tangle of conspiracy, political machination, and legal
brinksmanship--and transformed his understanding of mercy and
justice forever.
"Just Mercy "is at once an unforgettable account of an idealistic,
gifted young lawyer's coming of age, a moving window into the lives
of those he has defended, and an inspiring argument for compassion
in the pursuit of justice.
Praise for "Just Mercy"
"Words such as "important" and "compelling" may have lost their
force through overuse, but to read this book is to feel that they
have been restored, along with one's hopes for humanity."--Tracy
Kidder
"Bryan Stevenson is America's young Nelson Mandela--a brilliant
lawyer fighting with courage and conviction to guarantee justice
for all."--Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
The young adult adaptation of the acclaimed, #1 New York Times
bestseller Just Mercy--soon to be both a major motion picture starring
Michael B. Jordan, Jaime Foxx, and Brie Larson and the subject of an
upcoming HBO documentary feature.
In this very personal work--adapted from the original #1 bestseller,
which the New York Times calls "as compelling as To Kill a Mockingbird,
and in some ways more so"--acclaimed lawyer and social justice advocate
Bryan Stevenson offers a glimpse into the lives of the wrongfully
imprisoned and his efforts to fight for their freedom.
Stevenson's story is one of working to protect basic human rights for
the most vulnerable people in American society--the poor, the wrongly
convicted, and those whose lives have been marked by discrimination and
marginalization. Through this adaptation, young people of today will
find themselves called to action and compassion in the pursuit of
justice.
Proceeds of this book will go to charity to help in Stevenson's
important work to benefit the voiceless and the vulnerable as they
attempt to navigate the broken U.S. justice system.
The MacArthur grant-winning environmental justice activist's
riveting memoir of a life fighting for a cleaner future for
America's most vulnerable A Smithsonian Magazine Top Ten Best
Science Book of 2020 Catherine Coleman Flowers, a 2020 MacArthur
"genius," grew up in Lowndes County, Alabama, a place that's been
called "Bloody Lowndes" because of its violent, racist history.
Once the epicenter of the voting rights struggle, today it's Ground
Zero for a new movement that is also Flowers's life's work-a fight
to ensure human dignity through a right most Americans take for
granted: basic sanitation. Too many people, especially the rural
poor, lack an affordable means of disposing cleanly of the waste
from their toilets and, as a consequence, live amid filth. Flowers
calls this America's dirty secret. In this "powerful and moving
book" (Booklist), she tells the story of systemic class, racial,
and geographic prejudice that foster Third World conditions not
just in Alabama, but across America, in Appalachia, Central
California, coastal Florida, Alaska, the urban Midwest, and on
Native American reservations in the West. In this inspiring story
of the evolution of an activist, from country girl to student civil
rights organizer to environmental justice champion at Bryan
Stevenson's Equal Justice Initiative, Flowers shows how sanitation
is becoming too big a problem to ignore as climate change brings
sewage to more backyards-not only those of poor minorities.
Double Exposure is a major new series based on the remarkable
photography collection held by the Earl W. and Amanda Stafford
Center for African American Media Arts at the Smithsonian National
Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). The
powerful images depicted in this volume include many of the
photographs that helped to galvanize support from around the world
for the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. Among them are
photographs from Leonard Freed's series, "Black in White America,"
Ernest C. Withers' signature photograph of the Sanitation Workers'
Solidarity March in Memphis, Tennessee, and Charles Moore's
documentation of police brutality during the 1963 Children's
Crusade in Birmingham, Alabama. Also featured are Spider Martin's
shots of the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965, including the
iconic Two Minute Warning, James H. Wallace's visual record of a Ku
Klux Klan rally in 1964, and Burk Uzzle's images following Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. In addition to over 60
photographs, this volume features a foreword by Founding Director
Lonnie G. Bunch III, along with essays by civil rights leader and
United States Representative the late John Lewis, and activist
Bryan Stevenson.;lt;/DIV>
A frank and enlightening discussion on race and the law in America
today, from some of our leading legal minds-including the
bestselling author of Just Mercy This blisteringly candid
discussion of the American racial dilemma in the age of Black Lives
Matter brings together the head of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund,
the former attorney general of the United States, a bestselling
author and death penalty lawyer, and a star professor for an honest
conversation the country desperately needs to hear. Drawing on
their collective decades of work on civil rights issues as well as
personal histories of rising from poverty and oppression, these
titans of the legal profession discuss the importance of working
for justice in an unjust time. Covering topics as varied as "the
commonality of pain," "when 'public' became a dirty word," and the
concept of an "equality dividend" that is due to people of color
for helping America brand itself internationally as a country of
diversity and acceptance, Sherrilyn Ifill, Loretta Lynch, Bryan
Stevenson, and Anthony C. Thompson engage in a deeply
thought-provoking discussion on the law's role in both creating and
solving our most pressing racial quandaries. A Perilous Path will
speak loudly and clearly to everyone concerned about America's
perpetual fault line.
In this book I have taken true life events that have actually
occurred in my lifetime. My inspiration was about a real life game
of Russian roulette. The last soul survivor of five young teenage
boys was the one who told me his story. They did not all die from
the actual playing of the game, but it did cause the boys a deep
depression that took their lives, one by one. However, they did not
all die the way my book describes. In fact, one of the boys death's
was context I used from a real incident that took place when I was
growing up. He was my friend. This boy was being bullied by six
other teenage boys. After beating him up and ramming his head
through a plate glass window of the local paramount theater, he
decided to end it all and jump in front of a train. Bullying is a
serious matter that can effect young minds in ways that are so
horrible, you might not fi nd out what is really going on with
them, until it is too late. May Tommy rest in peace. But I could
not end this book here. I believe that when something bad happens,
there are always good things to fall in its place. So I threw a few
twists into my writings. There is a forest on the outskirts of my
home town that was declared the historical cottonwoods, in which I
use as the setting for this book. Wandering through the forest one
day, I discovered a rather large naturally hollowed out cottonwood
tree. This is where one lucky boys adventures begin. The boys built
a real working elevator inside the tree that would lead to the
bottom of a two story tree house they also constructed. But it does
not end there. A magical book of secrets reveals itself. In this
book it tells the story about an underground city as it really
happens. Inside the hollow of the tree and approximately ten feet
below the surface, an underground elevator is activated, once the
owner of the book comes forward. This will lead to a hallway full
of doors, each leading to mystical places beyond your wildest
dreams. At the end of the first hallway is a rather large room
where all hallways begin. A hidden ceiling door slides open with a
thunderous ear deafening screech. It is the glass bottom of the
Fraser river, in which you are able to view underwater creatures in
their natural habitat. Down one of the hallways there is a door to
an ancient library that tells the history of the underground. It is
referred to as the spell room. There is also another door that
leads to the four seasons. A big wooden door separates the hallways
full of doors from an underground city called the Packs. Inside
this city is a rather unique arena where there is a hockey game
like you have never seen before.
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