LBW In Campaigns, Get Educated, MAP18, March Against Poverty MAP18 BOOK LIST Looking to learn more about the topics we’re creating awareness for? Here are some of our most recommended books on racial division, poverty, and Christianity and poverty. RACIAL DIVISION: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander Is God a White Racist?: A Preamble to Black Theology by William R. Jones White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson PHD Embrace by Leroy Barber Under Our Skin: Getting Real About Race. Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations that Divide Us by Benjamin Watson and Ken Peterson Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America by Christian Smith and Michael Emerson Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond by Marc Lamont Hill POVERTY: The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto by Travis Smiley and Cornell West The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen’s Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear by Paul Rogat Loeb 99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality Is Wrecking the World and What We Can Do About It by Chuck Collins So Rich, So Poor: Why it’s so hard to end poverty in America by Peter Edelman The Life You Can Save: How to Do your Part to End World Poverty by Peter Singer There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America by Alex Kotlowitz Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation by Jonathan Kozol The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David K Shipler The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore A Place at the Table: The Crisis of 49 Million Hungry Americans and How to Solve It by Peter Pringle Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich CHRISTIANITY AND POVERTY: Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion by Gregory Boyle Toxic Charity: How Churches and Charities Hurt Those They Help, And How You Can Reverse It by Robert D. Lupton The Justice Project by Brian McLaren, Elisa Padilla, and Ashley Bunting Seeber Make Poverty Personal: Taking the Poor as Seriously as the Bible Does by Ash Barker How Much Is Enough: Hungering for God in an Affluent Culture by Arthur Simon The Politics of Jesus: Rediscovering the True Revolutionary Nature of Jesus’ Teachings and How They Have Been Corrupted by Obery M Hendricks There Shall Be No Poor Among You: Poverty in the Bible by Leslie J. Hoppe The Upside-Down Kingdom by Donald Kraybill
LBW In MAP18, March Against Poverty Get Involved in MAP18 Before the walk: Come to the rally at The Center For Civil & Human Rights on March 3rd (You can get your ticket HERE). Give financially towards resources for the march to Memphis (HERE). Donate shoes, gas cards, and other resources to aid Terence and Johnny in the travel across the country. Click (HERE) to contact us. Reach out to sponsor and partner for the walk. Contact us (HERE) During the walk: Share the campaign with your network and use your platform to bring attention to poverty and reconciliation. Follow the campaign on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. Record and post a video to social about why we need to address poverty and also have a nation healed of racial tension. Come join Terence and Johnny on the walk to Memphis (follow their tracker HERE – Contact us HERE) Give financially towards resources for the walk to Memphis (HERE). Follow the Doers Podcast on Apple Podcast or Stitcher (HERE). Read and discuss books about poverty and race with your community (HERE). Plan to meet Terence at the finish line in Memphis on April 4th (You’ll learn more as we blog). Donate shoes, gas cards, and other resources to aid Terence and Johnny in the travel across the country. Click (HERE) to contact us. After the walk: Meet Terence at the finish line in Memphis on April 4th. Interview for our Documentary on Racial Justice & Reconciliation called ALL OF US FILM (reach out to us on our CONTACT PAGE) Stay updated on our Documentary on Racial Justice & Reconciliation, ALL OF US FILM. Give financially towards the completion of the documentary (HERE). Volunteer with our community in Atlanta (HERE).
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