Book/Podcast and Video Favorites
Oprah’s Book Club selects “Nightcrawling” by teen novelist Leila Mottley. By Tori B. Powell / CBS News
What the book ‘The Last Suspicious Holdout’ says about the Black experience. By Juana Summers, Justin Kenin and Lauren Hodges / NPR
Hall of Famer Grant Hill’s memoir ‘Game’ coming out in June. By AP and ABC News
White Christian Nationalism Is a ‘Threat to Democracy.’ By Sarah Jones / New York Magazine
Race Against Time | Book by Jerry Mitchell / Simon & Schuster
Don’t Ignore Race. Or Alienate White People. By Monique Duson / Christianity Today
When Jim Crow Violence Came to a Small New York Village. By Jennifer Szalai /NYT
The Long History of Resistance That Birthed Black Lives Matter. By Elias Rodriques / The Nation
White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America a book by Anthea Butler. By Bookshop
The America That Killed George Floyd. By Imbolo Mbue / The Atlantic
Dispatches from the Race War a book by Tim Wise. By Bookshop
Our Unfinished March: The Violent Past and Imperiled Future of the Vote-A History, a Crisis, a Plan. By Eric Holder and Sam Koppelman
W.E.B. Du Bois and the making of Black Reconstruction. By Gerald Horne / The Nation
Black Perspectives Summer Books Preview, Part II. By Robert Greene II / AAIHS
Viola Davis’ ‘Finding Me’ Reveals Fight for Success: Review. By Stephanie Zacharek / Time
In ‘Truth’s Table’ book, women podcasters cast vision for future of Black church. By Adelle M. Banks / RN
Black Perspectives Summer Books Preview, Part I . By Robert Greene II / AAIHS
Behind the Racial Disparities in the US Child-Welfare System. By Janell Ross / Time
A Reckoning With How Slavery Ended. By Eric Herschtal / The New Republic
America, Goddam. Violence, Black Women and the Struggle for Justice. By Treva B. Lindsey.
Danyel Smith Tells the History of Black Women in Pop Music. By Emily Lordi / The New Yorker
Alice Walker’s “Gathering Blossoms Under Fire” and the rare gift of Black women’s published journals. By Paula Vene Smith / Salon
‘Memphis’ traces decades of Black Americans’ trauma and triumph. By Ron Charles / Wash Post
Watch “Prince Rogers Nelson & Minneapolis Public School Teachers Strike (A Black Perspective) Pt. 4.” By Ralph Crowder / YouTube
Moving lightly through this world: Reflections on the weight of white Christian innocence. By Robert P. Jones / Religion News
In the Face of Black Pain, Elizabeth Alexander Turns to Art. By Michell S. Jackson / NYT
