Pilgrimage Overview:
Thank you for your interest in participating in GLIDE’s Spring 2025 Alabama Justice Pilgrimage, the 7th pilgrimage we’ve taken to Alabama since 2018. We are bringing a mighty group of UCSF staff, community leaders along with GLIDE staff and clients. The Alabama Justice Pilgrimage is central to GLIDE’s work to heal the wounds of enduring racism and economic inequality in San Francisco and beyond. And we’d like you to join us. Register Today.
We invite you to watch a short documentary produced by GLIDE (11 minutes) on the Alabama Pilgrimage called Pursuing Progress.
Pilgrimage Itinerary (Tentative):
- Pre-Pilgrimage Classes at GLIDE
- UCSF
- February 27 – 6-830p
- All Participants
- March 11 – 6-830p
- March 16 – 11a-1130p -Church + TL Tour
- March 18 – 6-830p
- UCSF
- ALABAMA
- SATURDAY, APRIL 5
- fly into Montgomery
- SUNDAY, APRIL 6
- Orientation and Preparation
- Small-group work
- Walking Tour of Montgomery
- EJI’s Freedom Monument Sculpture Park
- MONDAY, APRIL 7
- Electives:
- 1. Birmingham + Selma
- University of Alabama, Birmingham Medical Center
- Ballard House
- Kelly Ingram Park
- Selma Center for Nonviolence
- 2. Selma + Gee’s Bend
- Brown AME Chapel – Ms. Joyce O’neal
- Edmund Pettus Bridge
- Selma Center for Nonviolence
- Gee’s Bend Quilter’s Collective
- 1. Birmingham + Selma
- Electives:
- TUESDAY, APRIL 8
- Tuskegee University
- Infrastructural Racism and Sewage Justice
- WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9
- Legacy Museum
- National Memorial for Peace and Justice
- THURSDAY, APRIL 10
- Mother’s of Gynecology
- Closing
- Fly home
- POST-PILGRIMAGE PROCESSING
- TUESDAY, APRIL 22 6-830p at GLIDE
- Post-pilgrimage processing
- FRIDAY, MAY 9th
If you have any questions, please email fsanchez@glide.org
Pre-Pilgrimage Learning:
- To Read (Books)
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson (highly recommended)
Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation by Linda Villarosa (mandatory)
Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed History of America by Michael Harriot (highly recommended) - To Read (Articles/Short-Form)
“The Case for Reparations” by Ta-Nehisi Coates (The Atlantic)
“America’s Health Segregation Problem” by Vann R. Newkirk II (The Atlantic)
“Daughter’s Keeper: The Care and Treatment of Black Girls in America” (New England Journal of Medicine article) - To Listen
Serial, Season 3 by Serial Productions (Spotify Link)
1619 by The New York Times (Spotify Link)
“What ‘Drained-Pool Politics’ Costs America” on the Ezra Klein Show (Spotify Link)
Michael and Isoke’s Alabama Justice Pilgrimage Spotify playlist - To Watch
Preview of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice (aka “Lynching Memorial”)
When They See Us (Netflix miniseries)
13th (Netflix movie, full feature available free on YouTube)
Do The Right Thing (movie available on Showtime, Hulu, and Amazon Prime)
Bryan Stevenson’s TED Talk (YouTube, 24mins)
2022 UCSF Medals: Black Caucus (Vimeo, 8mins)
Please visit this page for the most updated info for the Fall Alabama Justice Pilgrimage.