My son John Lustrea joins me again for what we thought was to be a movie podcast. It turned out that my personal historian and 27-year-old son had a lot to say about what is happening in our world today. Most often my guests are middle-aged and I thought it was important to continue this conversation and see through the eyes of someone younger, someone who will be part of the ongoing change in our country and the world.

I also want to give you a heads up to watch the movie Just Mercy, if you haven’t already. Next week’s podcast will  be a discussion of that wonderful movie, which is based on the book of the same title by Bryan Stevenson.

Here are the book lists mentioned during this podcast.

John’s book list

Anita’s book list:
Resources for conversations on race and reconciliation

• White Fragility – Robin DiAngelo
• The Color of Compromise – Jemar Tisby
• The Warmth of Other Suns – Isabel Wilkerson
• Just Mercy (book) – Bryan Stevenson
• Just Mercy (movie)
• White Awake – Daniel Hill
• White Lies (coming in August 2020) – Daniel Hill
• How to Be An Antiracist – Ibram X. Kendi
• Stamped From the Beginning – Ibram X. Kendi
• Let Justice Roll Down – John Perkins
• Credible Witness – Brenda Salter McNeil
• Becoming Brave: Finding the Courage to Pursue Racial Justice Now (coming in August 2020) – Brenda Salter McNeil
• Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy and the Rise of Jim Crow – Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
• I’m Still Here – Austin Channing Brown
• Healing Racial Trauma – Sheila Wise Rowe
• So You Want to Talk About Race – Ijeoma Oluo
• The New Jim Crow – Michelle Alexander
• Between the World and Me – Ta-Nihisi Coates
• Rethinking Incarceration: Advocate Justice that Restores – Dominique Gilliard
• Beyond Hashtag Activism: Comprehensive Justice in a Complicated Age – Mae Elise Cannon 

• Link to movie review of Harriet

• History Mythbusting article

Here is a link to the National Museum of Civil War Medicine where John works as the Education Coordinator.

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