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Bryan Stevenson and the Mercy That Rebuilt a Broken System
Montgomery· 1989
Bryan Stevenson founded the Equal Justice Initiative, freed wrongly convicted death row inmates, challenged child sentencing laws, and built America's...
How a Teenage Refugee Named Yusra Swam for Her Life and Then for the World
Aegean Sea / Berlin· 2016
Syrian refugee Yusra Mardini swam for hours to save a sinking refugee boat, then competed on the first-ever Refugee Olympic Team at the 2016 Rio Games.
Gary Haugen and the Raid That Started International Justice Mission
Washington D.C.· 1997
After investigating the Rwandan genocide, Gary Haugen founded International Justice Mission in 1997, which has since helped rescue over 100,000 people from violence worldwide.
The Birmingham Children Who Changed America
Birmingham· 1963
In May 1963, over a thousand Black schoolchildren marched in Birmingham, Alabama, facing fire hoses and police dogs, catalysing the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Mama Maggie and the Garbage City Children of Cairo
Cairo· 1989
Mama Maggie Gobran left her career as a university professor to serve the Zabbaleen garbage collectors of Cairo, building schools and clinics serving over...
How Daniel Ellsberg Changed a War with a Photocopier
Washington D.C.· 1971
Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971, exposing two decades of government deception about the Vietnam War and reshaping press freedom in America.
The Innocence Project and the DNA Revolution in American Courts
New York City· 1992
The Innocence Project, founded in 1992, used DNA evidence to exonerate over 375 wrongfully convicted people and transformed the American criminal justice system.
Christine Caine and the A21 Campaign Against Human Trafficking
Thessaloniki· 2008
Christine Caine founded the A21 Campaign after seeing missing persons posters in a Greek airport, growing it into a global anti-trafficking organisation...
Anthony Ray Hinton and the 30 Years That Could Not Be Stolen
Birmingham· 2015
Anthony Ray Hinton spent 30 years on Alabama death row for murders he did not commit before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned his conviction in 2015.
The Student Whose Religious Liberty Case Changed a University
United States· 2024
A medical student challenged her university's discriminatory hijab policy through a religious liberty case, winning a ruling that changed the institution's approach to faith and professional dress codes.
The Pastor Who Went to Court for Feeding People
United States· 2024
Fined for feeding homeless residents, a pastor fought the city and won — but the real victory was that opposition multiplied the ministry from one church to seven, reaching five times more people.
How a Fact-Checker Investigated the Resurrection and Could Not Debunk It
Dublin· 2020-2021
Dublin fact-checker Ryan Gallagher accepted a colleague's challenge to investigate the resurrection using his professional methodology. Three months of rigorous analysis could not debunk it, and a year of wrestling with the implications rewrote his entire framework for truth.