Hello friends,
We’ve been working hard lately on many legal information resources we hope are helpful to you during this time. But we also know how important it is to stop and rest, and give our minds a break from the deluge of COVID news. So in the spirit of providing you with a mental break, we’ve compiled a list of social justice and access to justice themed content – interesting, thought-provoking, and entertaining things to read, watch, and listen to that we hope will spark some food for thought and discussion. This list is far from complete – we’ll continue to add to it over the coming weeks, and hope that you will comment below with your own suggestions for us to include.
Stay safe, stay rested, and give yourself a break!
The NSRLP Team
Books
NonFiction
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Charles C. Mann)
Bad Feminist (Roxane Gay)
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Trevor Noah)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Jared Diamond)
Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad (Jacqueline L. Tobin & Raymond G. Dobard)
A History of Reading (Alberto Manguel)
How to Breathe Underwater: Field Reports from an Age of Radical Change (Chris Turner)
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Malala Yousafzai)
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Caroline Criado-Perez)
Library: An Unquiet History (Matthew Battles)
Men Explain Things to Me (Rebecca Solnit)
The New Lawyer, 2ndEd: How Clients are Transforming the Practice of Law (Julie Macfarlane)
Roots: The Saga of an American Family (Alex Haley)
Sapiens (Yuval Noah Harari)
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman (Lindy West)
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know (Malcolm Gladwell)
Fiction
Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
Ceremony (Leslie Marmon Silko)
Felix Holt, The Radical (George Eliot)
The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
The Hate U Give (Angie Thomas)
Obasan (Joy Kogawa)
Ravensong (Lee Maracle)
Snow Falling on Cedars (David Guterson)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
Tracks (Louise Erdrich)
Movies
12 Angry Men (Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb; dir. Sidney Lumet)
BlacKkKlansman (John David Washington, Adam Driver; dir. Spike Lee)
Dallas Buyers Club (Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner; dir. Jean-Marc Vallée)
Do the Right Thing (Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee; dir. Spike Lee)
Erin Brockovich (Julia Roberts, Albert Finney; dir. Steven Soderbergh)
Fruitvale Station (Michael B. Jordan, Octavia Spencer; dir. Ryan Coogler)
The Hate U Give (Amandla Stenberg, Regina Hall; dir. George Tillman Jr.)
Kramer vs. Kramer (Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep; dir. Robert Benton)
The Laramie Project (Christina Ricci, Steve Buscemi; dir. Moisés Kaufman)
The Milagro Beanfield War (Rubén Blades, Richard Bradford; dir. Robert Redford)
Milk (Sean Penn, Josh Brolin; dir. Gus Van Sant)
Puncture (Chris Evans, Mark Kassen; dir. Adam Kassen/Mark Kassen)
Selma (David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo; dir. Ava DuVernay)
Short Term 12 (Brie Larson, Frantz Turner; dir. Destin Daniel Cretton)
Spotlight (Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams; dir. Tom McCarthy)
Support the Girls (Regina Hall, Haley Lu Richardson; dir. Andrew Bujalski)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Gregory Peck, Brock Peters; dir. Robert Mulligan)
The War of the Roses (Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner; dir. Danny DeVito)
Documentaries
13th (Ava DuVernay)
Making A Murderer (series)
O.J.: Made in America (dir. Ezra Edelman)
Resist (series)
Strong Island (dir. Yance Ford)
Time: The Kalief Browder Story (series)
Television
The Handmaid’s Tale (Elisabeth Moss, Yvonne Strahovski)
Justice (Fatima Al Taei, Khalifa Albhri)
Shrill (Aidy Bryant, Lolly Adefope)
When They See Us (Asante Blackk, Caleel Harris)
Podcasts
Cases That Should Have Gone to the SCC, But Didn’t! (YouTube)
Jensen & Holes: The Murder Squad
The War of the Roses – 1989 Film based on Warren Adler’s book – dark comedy about dreadful divorce.
Thank you Em!