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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life, Freedom, and Justice reflections
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items These titles deepen and broaden the themes of wrongful conviction, racial injustice, and resilient hope found in The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life, Freedom, and Justice. Each selection offers a powerful personal narrative or rigorous analysis of t...
Essential for anyone starting with Anthony Ray Hinton's story, this memoir recounts his nearly thirty years on death row for crimes he did not commit and his eventual exoneration with the help of civil rights attorney Bryan Stevenson. It is ideal for...
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life & Freedom
Bryan Stevenson's memoir follows his work with the Equal Justice Initiative, focusing on death row prisoner Walter McMillian and exposing deep racial and economic inequities in the U.S. justice system. It suits readers who want a lawyer's-eye view of...
Just Mercy
Michelle Alexander's landmark work argues that mass incarceration functions as a modern system of racial control, relegating millions-especially Black men-to second-class status through the War on Drugs and felony disenfranchisement. It is geared tow...
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration
Historian Ibram X. Kendi traces how racist ideas were deliberately created and spread to justify discriminatory laws and inequalities throughout U.S. history. Ideal for readers who want to understand the intellectual roots behind the prejudice and po...
Stamped from the Beginning: Definitive History
John Grisham's first nonfiction work investigates Ron Williamson, a former baseball prospect wrongly convicted of rape and murder in Ada, Oklahoma, and sent to death row before DNA evidence cleared him. It is suited to readers who appreciate narrativ...
The Innocent Man: Murder & Injustice
James Forman Jr., a former D.C. public defender and Yale law professor, explores why many Black leaders supported tough-on-crime policies that ultimately contributed to mass incarceration in Black communities. This is ideal for readers wrestling with...
Locking Up Our Own
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jennifer Berry Hawes chronicles the 2015 mass shooting at Charleston's Emanuel AME Church, following survivors and victims' families through grief, anger, and the complex realities behind public acts of forgiveness. ...
Grace Will Lead Us Home: The Charleston Church ...