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To Kill a Mockingbird

1962

Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his children against prejudice.

129 min

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58:33

Taking the Arrow Out of Your Heart with Alice Walker

Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple, shares her perspective on cultivating resilience and equanimity by mindfully tending to painful wounds caused by sorrow, anger or despair.

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In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women

Admirers of The Color Purple will find in these stories more evidence of Walker's power to depict black women—women who vary greatly in background yet are bound together. One of the most important, grieving, graceful, and honest writers ever to come into print (June Jordan). Library Journal.

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Empathy