Resources from Marcia Szymanski

As part of her talk, Marcia shared these resources:

Podcasts

• On Being: Isabel Wilkerson: “We all know in our bones that things are harder than they have to be.”
• On Being: Bryan Stevenson: Finding the Courage for What’s Redemptive
• Lynching In America
• Finding a Common Justice
• NPR Code Switch: The Women Behind the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Articles

• Streetsblog USA: Study: Pedestrian Death Rate More Than 2x Higher in Historically Red-Lined Neighborhoods
• Forward: I’m a black rabbi. I’ve never been in a Jewish space where I wasn’t questioned.

Books

• Three Mothers by Anna Malaikia Tubbs
• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
• Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
• Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
• Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys by Gilbert King
• How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith
• White Supremacy and Me by Layla Saad
• My Grandmother’s Hands by Reesma Menakem
• Sing Unburied Sing by Jesmyn Ward
• From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the 21st Century by William A. Darity Jr. & Kristen Mullen
• Kindred by Octavia Butler