Book/Podcast and Video Favorites
The Story Behind James Brown’s Legendary Fatback Groove By Dennis Chambers / You Tube
The early ’70s was prime time for soul queens on the charts. By Chris Molanphy / Slate Podcast
Watch “Minneapolis Public School Teachers Strike (A Black Perspective)”. By Ralph Crowder / You Tube
Behind the scenes of ‘On and Coppin.’ Andscape Video
Why white Christians might ban my book. By Lisa Sharon Harper / RNS
Know Your Enemy: A Second Civil War? With Jamelle Bouie. Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell / Dissent Podcast
2022 Finalists for the Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History. By AAIHS Editors
Ben Crump on Fighting for Justice for Daunte Wright, Ahmaud Arbery, Trayvon Martin & Z’Kye Husain. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
A Black historian journeys south to confront the past – and present. By Andrea Collier / CS Monitor
‘Lincoln’s Dilemma’ Illuminates Honest Abe’s Moment, and Ours: Review. By Daniel D’Addario / Variety
Filmmaker Stanley Nelson on Police Brutality, Black History & His First Oscar Nomination for “Attica.” Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
Inside effort to restore resort town that was once paradise for Black Americans. NBC News
50 Years After Recording “No Knock,” Gil Scott-Heron’s Protest Song Contains a Prescription. By Daniel King / Mother Jones
In a flawed system, a Black prosecutor wonders if she’s pursuing justice or being complicit. By Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. / Wash Post
Affirmative Action and America’s ‘Cosmetically Diverse’ College Campuses. By The Arguement / NYT Podcast
“American Reckoning”: 55 Years After KKK Murder of Mississippi NAACP Leader, Case Remains Unsolved. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
George Floyd and the ‘duty to intervene.’ By Marten Powers / Wash Post Podcast
J Dilla Was a Revered Rap Producer. A New Book Deepens His Legacy. By Eric Ducker / NYT
A Review of 2021 Books in Black Intellectual History. By Robert Greene II / AAIHS
Father John Dear on Desmond Tutu & Thich Nhat Hanh: Two Peacemakers Who Changed the World. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
Taye Diggs ‘Why?’: Son inspired his new book on racial injustice. By Elise Brisco / USA Today
Eric Williams and the Tangled History of Capitalism and Slavery. By Gerald Horne / The Nation
‘A Lot of People Knew:’ Watch the Official Trailer for W. Kamau Bell’s Bill Cosby Docuseries. By Tomas Mier / Rolling Stone
Eric Dickerson Brings the Smoke By Dave Zirin / The Nation
Nikole Hannah-Jones on the power of collective memory. By Code Switch / NPR
They came, they saw, they reckoned? By Jennifer Chudy and Hakeem Jefferson / NPR Podcast
