A book for our times of Black Lives Matter. A vivid description of the injustice people of color have faced in the country for generations and the injustice of the courts and prisons not just in the Deep South where the author lives but throughout the US, even California. As a nation we are too quick to convict and too slow to correct our errors. Bryan Stevenson is to be commended for writing a powerful book and dedicating his life to providing equal justice under the law. The book used the case of Walter McMillian, a black man wrongfully convicted of murder and being placed in death row as the vehicle to drive the narrative that brought in many more cases about children being incarcerated for life in adult prisons, etc. This book is a powerful narrative about the inequalities in our nation based on race, poverty and abuse. ( )

The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence. Bryan fights tirelessly for Walter with the system stacked against them. (source: TMDb)