Just Mercy Resources

Week Two Resources (August 26)

Books

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James Cone

Videos

Bryan Stevenson Speech
Frances McDormand Oscar Acceptance Speech (2019)
60 Minutes Special on Walter McMillan (1992)

Webpages

Just Mercy IMDb Page
Equal Justice Initiative
Inclusion Rider on Just Mercy Set

Week Four Resources (September 9)

Books

So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
I Bring the Voices of My People by Chanequa Walker-Barnes
Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi

Videos

Kimberlé Crenshaw’s TED Talk on Intersectionality

Webpages

“Language Matters: The Shift from ‘Slave’ to ‘Enslaved Person’ May be Difficult, but It’s Important
“Why We’re Capitalizing Black”
“Where Did BIPOC Come From?”

Week Five Resources (September 16)

Books

Microaggressions in Ministry by Cody J. Sanders and Angela Yarber
Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman
I Bring the Voices of My People by Chanequa Walker-Barnes
Growing in God’s Love: A Story Bible Ed. Elizabeth F. Caldwell and Carol A. Wehrheim (This is the Story Bible I mentioned briefly from the Weekday School)

Webpages

White Privilege by Peggy McIntosh
One of numerous articles regarding Irwin County Detention Center
Article regarding SBC Defense of Slavery and Racism
Young Gifted & Black Bookstore in Stone Mountain

Week Six Resources (September 23)

Books

Womanist Theological Ethics: A Reader Ed. Katie Geneva Cannon, Emilie M. Townes, and Angela D. Sims
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
The Evidence of Things Not Seen by James Baldwin
Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin

Webpages

103 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
Stone Mountain History
Campaign Zero
8 Can’t Wait