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Just mercy : a story of justice and redemption
\"From one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time comes an unforgettable true story about the redeeming potential of mercy. Bryan Stevenson was a gifted young attorney when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending the poor, the wrongly condemned, and those trapped in the furthest reaches of our criminal justice system. One of his first cases was that of Walter McMillian, a young man sentenced to die for a notorious murder he didn't commit. The case drew Stevenson into a tangle of conspiracy, political machination, and legal brinksmanship - and transformed his understanding of mercy and justice forever.\"--Back cover.
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Toward a Historically Informed Analysis of Racial Health Disparities Since 1619
There has never been a time in the United States without racial health disparities. Although the term \"health disparities\" is of recent origin, differential health outcomes between Blacks and Whites have been part of the American landscape for 400 years. The sophistication of the analytic approaches taken by journalists, social scientists, government agencies, or health scholars may differ, as do the objects of study, but the narratives are very much the same.1 The reasons given for such disparities are supposedly either inherent in the Black body or inherent in the inequalities that have shaped the Black experience for centuries. Yet, most studies of health disparities ignore the real historical past or, at best, classify it as a \"variable.\"2 If historical evidence is used at all, it is said to have two contradictory influences: to make change seem impossible or to make change seem inevitable if attention is given to choices made and not made.3 At the same time, race and racism as factors in the production and maintenance of health disparities are grouped into unchanging categories requiring little definition or historical contextualization. A more appropriate and truly historical approach could help us see the past reasons for health disparities and how they link the body and the body politic. With this knowledge, public health practitioners can consider what to do to overcome these historical burdens that affect the life chances of African Americans.
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مجرد رحمة : قصة العدالة والفداء
مجرد رحمة قصة العدل والفداء : الولايات المتحدة لديها أعلى معدل للسجن في العالم. من المتوقع أن يذهب واحد من كل 15 شخصا ولدوا هناك اليوم إلى السجن. بالنسبة للرجال السود يرتفع هذا الرقم إلى واحد في 3. كما أن Death Row أسود بشكل غير متناسب أيضا، فقد نشأ بريان ستيفنسون فقيرا في الجنوب المنفصل عنصريا. جعله إحساسه الفطري بالعدالة محاميا شابا رائعا، وكان والتر ماكميليان أحد المتهمين الأوائل له، حكم على رجل أسود بالموت لقتل امرأة بيضاء-وهي جريمة أصر على أنه لم يرتكبها، وجذبت القضية بريان إلى تشابك من المؤامرة، والآلية السياسية، وعدم المساواة العرقية المذهلة، وحيوية حافة الهاوية القانونية - وحول فهمه للرحمة والعدالة إلى الأبد.
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Just mercy : adapted for young adults : a true story of the fight for justice
\"Bryan Stevenson details from his personal experience his many challenges and efforts as a lawyer and social advocate, especially on behalf of America's most marginalized people\"--\"Provided by publisher.
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Just mercy : adapted for young adults : a true story of the fight for justice
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.
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“This is 1986. This isn’t like the 60s and 50s”: Locating the Long Civil Rights Narrative in Just Mercy (2019)
Most mainstream films about the civil rights movement are set in the South in the 1950-1960s, but this article points out how Hollywood in the 2010s broke new ground by also portraying civil rights struggles after that era. Many historians have heeded Jacqueline Dowd Hall’s call to revise the American civil rights narrative, and this article argues that Destin Daniel Cretton’s Just Mercy (2019) is a part of a wave of “long civil rights films.” Exploring how Just Mercy portrays a key injustice that continues to affect contemporary America while also showing civil rights activism to continue into the 1980s, 1990s, and onwards, the article argues that Just Mercy’s depiction of the unjust treatment, conviction, and incarceration of Alabama native Walter McMillian in the late 1980s effectively calls for a revised understanding of the longer lines of civil rights activism.
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Neglected — Cancer Care and Mental Health in Rural America
The woman had neglected breast cancer, but the root of her problem was bipolar disorder, for which her family, feeling guilty about committing her in the past, would no longer compel treatment. Moreover, much of rural America has less than 1 psychiatrist per 30,000 people.
My first thought, as I viewed the CT images, was a somewhat fantastic notion that the tumor on the monitor screen could not possibly be real. It obliterated not just the area where the breast should have been but most of the chest wall. Distant seeds had also spread to the liver and bones, but those relatively small daughter metastases were dwarfed by their massive progenitor. My mind could not accept that a tumor this large could exist without killing its host.
Then I wondered how it had come to be. Somehow a living, breathing woman had been bearing this . . .
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