Justice League 9

[Arlyne Doepner]

Fueledby his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman\u2019s selfless act, Bruce Wayne enlists the help of his newfound ally, Diana Prince, to face an even greater enemy. Together, Batman and Wonder Woman work quickly to find and recruit a team of metahumans to stand against this newly awakened threat. \u00A0But despite the formation of this unprecedented league of heroes\u2014Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Cyborg and The Flash\u2014it may already be too late to save the planet from an assault of catastrophic proportions.

The Justice League is an organizing fellowship for justice-impacted individuals and youth to learn advocacy and organizing skills, and to deploy those skills on campaigns to fight structural racism and mass incarceration. The Justice League members earn stipends while planning and developing campaigns.

Krystal has overcome substance abuse and many other life challenges. She now works for an outpatient mental health agency and is enrolled in courses to obtain her developmental disability certificate certified substance abuse counselor certificate.

Born and raised in Kansas City, Anthony Newsome holds a political science degree from UMKC and has taken his passion for social justice to local community organizations. He is a leader with Decarcerate KC, and is also involved with the KC Defender as a community outreach member and writer.

Erin is a rising junior at North Carolina A&T State University majoring in kinesiology. As a previous Justice League fellow, she led a food drive to help housing insecure people, many of them justice-involved, and has authored several blog posts for Emancipate NC on court observation and more.

As founder and CEO of the non-profit Motivating Others to Believe in Life, Courtney helps children and young adults reach success. She prides herself on community work like feeding the elderly and less fortunate. She also has worked as a lead canvasser for successful campaigns in rural areas.

Nique is a rising senior Business Economics student at North Carolina A&T State University. This is her second year as a Justice League fellow. She is looking forward to learning how to advocate for our communities! In school Nique tries to be as involved as possible with community service.

Crystal was born and raised in Guilford County with a commitment to politics and serving humanity. She is the founder of The Book of Humanity nonprofit, has created several programs to meet the needs of the community, and has served in organizations ranging from the NAACP to Working Families Party.

Jenny is from Morganton, NC, but now calls Raleigh home. She is a survivor of sexual violence and the harm of a criminal legal system ill-equipped to address it. She envisions a world where people who have been harmed, and those who have caused harm, can heal and where communities are restored, especially those most impacted by racial and systemic violence.

Jaymond is a community organizer and founder of Community Civil Activist in Concord, NC. He advocates for people across NC by calling for justice reform and bringing awareness to injustice. Jaymond believes in ending mass incarceration, decriminalizing all drugs, and restoring human rights and dignity to all people.

Lee is a minister serving New Jerusalem Ministries in Aberdeen N.C., a retired, disabled Army Veteran, and a retired Corrections Officer with the N.C. Department of Corrections. He has also been an advocate in the fight for Civil Rights for the past 23 years and endured wrongful incarceration.

Kyla is a rising junior and honors student at NC A&T State University studying Liberal Studies with a concentration in Pre-Law and a minor in English. She aspires to attend law school and work in public policy. Her passion is building power within people, not over people.

Latisha is a mom, a district organizer for Durham Beyond Policing, a peer support specialist, the owner of a nonprofit called L.O.S.T, and director of Redirect Youth Talent. She loves her community and the youth that are our future.

Treeva was born in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina. A mother and former paralegal and business owner, she was recently released after being incarcerated for defending her life. Among her goals for the near future are activism, social entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, helping others with re-entry as well.

Mia is a junior at North Carolina A&T State University from Richmond, VA. She has witnessed the effects of incarceration on the young black youth in her community. She strives to become a criminal defense attorney with concentration in juvenile law.

April is a dedicated advocate for social and environmental justice, having helped various campaigns that aimed to address systemic issues and promote social change. Through her involvement, she discovered the power of collective action, the importance of community engagement, and how education and empowerment are crucial to successful movements.

April spent 31.5 years of incarceration beginning at age fifteen. She now provides resources for those still incarcerated as well as those who are soon to be released through her advocacy business, Fenced In. She also shares her journey as a published author and public speaker.

Emancipate NC mobilizes and trains youth and other justice-impacted people in a fellowship program called the Justice League. We are currently seeking nominations of formerly incarcerated people, justice-impacted people, and youth who have been impacted by...

Calling all directly-impacted activists, freedom fighters, healers, caregivers, change-makers, and dreamers! Emancipate NC is now accepting applications for the 2024-2025 Justice League cohort. The Justice League is a fellowship program to train and equip people who...

Emancipate NC mobilizes and trains youth and justice-impacted people of all ages in a fellowship program called the Justice League. We are currently seeking nominations of formerly-incarcerated people, justice-impacted people, and youth impacted by incarceration to...

By now the backstory is a bit of superhero film legend. Director Zack Snyder fought a lot of second-guessing by the film studio while making Justice League, an important movie in building out the universe of superhero characters from DC Comics. Perhaps the disappointing public response to Snyder's take on Superman in 2013's Man of Steel and Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice in 2016 had spooked the corporate suits at Warner Bros. Pictures.

When Snyder's daughter died in early 2017, the director left Justice League's production and let Joss Whedon, director of Marvel's first two Avengers movies, take over. Judging by Snyder's version, Whedon must have completely retooled the film, creating a schizophrenic two-hour cut with loads of additional scenes that sometimes felt like two different movies playing at the same time.

Most theatrical releases contain the movie's best scenes, regardless of what else gets tossed in through a director's cut. But not so with Zack Snyder's Justice League, which offers an entirely different narrative, different beginning, different ending and wider scope, to give a glimpse of the larger story he was driving toward all along. All this, married with the kind of dazzling visual sequences that once made Snyder the perfect custodian of the DC Extended Universe in film.

Gone is a lot of the hokey humor that Whedon seemed to insert to offset criticisms of Snyder's relentlessly dark vision. (Whedon's name has also disappeared from this new film's credits, suggesting they exorcised every bit of his material.)

Snyder's take is also an R-rated version. There is more blood and gore than typical big-budget superhero stories; Batman and other characters use the F-word, and there is a scene where more than one hero actually murders a villain. Welcome to the Snyderverse.

It makes sense that a movie that exists because of the fans would work so hard to please them. So there are depictions of cool characters from the comics we haven't yet seen on the big screen. Martian Manhunter and Deathstroke pop up, along with extended footage of supreme bad guy Darkseid and his lieutenants, such as Granny Goodness.

There are also expanded backstories on Ezra Miller's Flash and Ray Fisher's Cyborg; Fisher in particular gets to shine as we learn more about why Cyborg hates the father who used an alien machine to save his life after a horrific car accident, grafting unknown technology to his body.

And, of course, there's a newly filmed epilogue that leans toward the story of the Injustice graphic novel series. There are a few surprises for fans, so I won't detail much here, but it helps clarify a head-scratching moment from Batman v. Superman and includes a cameo from a character who remains a bit of a disappointment in the Snyder era of DC superhero films.

There are other problems here, too. This new Justice League is still packed with a lot of computer-generated effects that make the action feel unreal. Aside from Gadot's Wonder Woman and the Amazons at the film's start, the female characters here are mostly mopey and have little purpose beyond supporting the men.

And it is four. Hours. Long. Frankly, this should have been a streaming project all along, given how much story Snyder wanted to cram into a theatrical feature. It's tough to imagine audiences sitting in a theater for a movie this long, so you can't help wondering what Snyder was thinking when he shot this much material in the first place.

Whedon's reputation has taken a hit since the original Justice League was released, with Fisher in particular alleging that the director was abusive on the set and oversaw story changes that reduced or eliminated the roles of nonwhite characters in the film. (Indeed, Black characters such as Cyborg's parents and Flash's love interest, Iris West, reappear or get more screen time in Zack Snyder's Justice League.)

Warner Bros. has denied Fisher's allegations that executives there hindered an investigation into studio executives' role in enabling Whedon. WarnerMedia announced in December that its investigation had concluded and that unspecified "remedial action" had been taken.

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