The Sun Does ShineLearn more about the author of The Sun Does Shine, Anthony Ray Hinton at the following sources:
O, The Oprah Magazine
Deliverance - Oprah interviews Anthony Ray Hinton
CBS This Morning Interview
Anthony Ray Hinton talks about his book with Oprah Winfrey, Gayle King, Norah O’Donnell, and John Dickerson
NBC Today Show Interview
Megyn Kelly interviews Anthony Ray Hinton
A Modern Library edition of the renowned black author's classic first novel captures a vivid and provocative portrait of the African-American experience.
This memoir traces Maya Angelou's childhood in a small, rural community during the 1930s. Filled with images and recollections that point to the dignity and courage of black men and women, Angelou paints a sometimes disquieting, but always affecting picture of the people; and the times; that touched her life.
To Kill a Mockingbird is a coming-of-age story about a young girl named Scout Finch who witnesses her father's defense of a Black man wrongly accused of rape in 1930s Alabama
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe powerfully exposed slavery's horrors, influencing public opinion and the Civil War, with emotional characters and vivid storytelling.
American author and teacher Bebe Moore Campbell's novel Your Blues Ain't Like Mine (1992) spans three decades in the life of an African American family haunted by the lynching of young Armstrong Todd in the rural Mississippi town of Hopewell.
About the Ivy Indy Campus Read
The Ivy Tech Indianapolis Library was proud to host a Campus Read initiative at the pleasure of former Chancellor Esters and in cooperation with Ivy Tech Indianapolis Student Life.
For the Inaugural Campus Read, we selected Anthony Ray Hinton's The Sun Does Shine.
The below word cloud was created by participants at the Inaugural Ivy Indy Campus Read Kick-Off event based on first impressions of the book before reading it:
The 1619 Project reexamines U.S. history, centering slavery's origins in 1619 and its lasting impact on American culture, society, and contemporary issues.
A renowned journalist and legal commentator exposes the unchecked power of the prosecutor as a driving force in America's mass incarceration crisis--and charts a way out.
The founder of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama recounts his experiences as a lawyer working to assist those desperately in need, reflecting on his pursuit of the ideal of compassion in American justice.
The young adult adaptation of Just Mercy shares Bryan Stevenson's fight for justice, focusing on wrongfully imprisoned individuals and his efforts to secure their freedom.
Michelle Alexander, a former litigator and civil rights advocate, argues that the United States's criminal justice system is still a tool of racial control, even though the country is legally considered colorblind.
Policing Black Bodies goes beyond chronicling isolated incidents of injustice to look at the broader systems of inequality in our society--how they're structured, how they harm Black people, and how we can work for positive change.
In Unfair, Adam Benforado reveals how hidden psychological biases distort the criminal justice system, exposing flaws that lead to inequality and wrongful convictions.
Non-profit founded by Bryan Stevenson to provide legal aid to prisoners who may have been denied a fair trial
Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC)
Contains demographics and statistics about death row; focus is on U.S. data
Data about global death row policies
Information about the film
