In this episode, meet award-winning author and critic Carole Boston Weatherford, author of Standing in the Need of Prayer, and Slate’s senior legal correspondent and host of the Amicus podcast Dahlia Lithwick, author of Lady Justice. Press play to hear what inspired these authors to write and narrate their audiobooks.
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Standing in the Need of Prayer is an audiobook based on the popular spiritual of the same name. This book reckons with a painful history while serving as a testament to the human spirit’s ability to persevere. Its universal message of faith, strength, and resilience will resonate with listeners of all ages.
Dahlia Lithwick, one of the nation’s foremost legal commentators, tells the gripping and heroic story of the women lawyers who fought the racism, sexism, and xenophobia of Donald Trump’s presidency—and won in Lady Justice.
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