Chapter 32: "You Fight Racism with Solidarity" - Gigi Pedraza

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Gigi Pedraza, founder of The Latino Community Fund, is a brilliant thinker, leader, and reader. In this lively conversation, she talks with us about the ideas and stories that shape her work engaging and mobilizing Georgia's Latino community.

https://lcfgeorgia.org/
https://twitter.com/LCFGeorgia
https://twitter.com/GigiPedrazaM

BOOKS MENTIONED:
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn: The Saga of Two Families and the Making of Atlanta by Gary Pomerantz
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
Obit by Victoria Chang
Barbie Chang by Victoria Chang
This Side of Glory: The Autobiography of David Hilliard and the Story of the Black Panther Party by David Hilliard
Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides - Translated by Anne Carson
Nox - Anne Carson

Chapter 31: ""What Happens to Me Will Eventually Impact You" - Diana Chavez

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Our friend Diana Chavez got a job on Joe Biden's campaign and helped him win. In this episode, she talks with us about what drove her to politics, how books empower her work, and why she should probably read more fiction.

BOOKS MENTIONED:

Becoming by Michelle Obama
Educated by Tara Westover
The Power of Moments by Chip and Dan Heath
Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
Roald Dahl books
The Complete Stories by Clarice Lispector
The Prince of Frogtown by Rick Bragg
The Devil’s Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea
Braving the Wilderness by Brene Brown


Chapter 29: "How Did We Get Here?" - Ryan T. Woods

In a time when religious tensions are reshaping national politics, religious historian Ryan T. Woods helps us answer urgent questions. What is an Evangelical? How did Evangelicalism evolve into what it is today? How was the Christian movement first perceived by the Romans? Why is Shirley Jackson like a pumpkin spice latte?

Books/Authors Mentioned:
// Christian Smith
// The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America by Frances Fitzgerald
// The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity by Robert Louis Wilken
// The Christians as the Romans Saw Them by Robert Louis Wilken
// The Land We Are - edited by Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill and Sophie McCall
// Paranoia by Shirley Jackson
// The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
// The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century by Walter Scheidel

Chapter 23: There's Also Some Hope in the World: A field recording from Atlanta's poetry scene

Tim and Ian left the bookstore and ventured out to Urban Grind in West Midtown to hear local poets perform before a live audience. In this episode, we learn what drives them to open mics, how they hope people will connect with their work, and what slam poetry is all about. Warning - NSFW!

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Amena Brown
Urban Grind
Ashlee Haze
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