Book/Podcast and Video Favorites
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
Randall Kennedy Says It Loud. By Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins / The Nation
Rare Toni Morrison Short Story To Be Published This Month. By AP and NPR
Carmelo Anthony shares his story in ‘Where Tomorrows Aren’t Promised.’ By Jonathan Capehart / Wash Post Podcast
A New Origin Story: The 1619 Project. By Nikole Hannah Jones / NYT Magazine
Angela Davis on Imagining New Worlds, the Campaign to Free Mumia and the Biden Presidency. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
Inside Soul Train Awards 2021: BET celebrates 50th anniversary of Soul Train getting down. CBS News Video
Are We Witnessing the Mainstreaming of White Power in America. By Ezra Klein / NYT Podcast
Is It Time to Abandon the Idea of an ‘Asian American’ Identity? By Ezra Klein / NYT Podcast
Remembering the Black lifesavers of Pea Island. By Bill Rhoden / The Undefeated Video
Enslaved Revolutionary Women: An Author Interview with Karen Cook-Bell. By Karen Cook Bell . AAIHS
Michael Eric Dyson on race in America. CBS Mornings
Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen envision a more unified America. By Sharon Pruitt -Young, Audie Cornish, Matt Ozug and Courtney Dorning / NPR
The White Stuff: A Field Guide to White Supremacy. Brian Gilmore / The Progressive Magazine
America Was Forged by the Marginalized. By Jamelle Bouie / NYT Podcast
The Story of the American Revolution You Weren’t Taught in School. By Ezra Klein / NYT Podcast
How White identity politics drives America’s current divides. By John Avalon / CNN
The Unsure State of Asian America. By Rosemarie Ho / The Nation
This scrupulous biography of Robert E. Lee is exactly what the country needs. By George Will / Wash Post
“Until I Am Free”: Keisha Blain on the Enduring Legacy of Voting Rights Pioneer Fannie Lou Hamer. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
“Becoming Abolitionists”: Derecka Purnell on Why Police Reform Is Not Enough to Protect Black Lives. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
‘We’ve Become Too Complicated’: Where Eric Adams Thinks Democrats Went Wrong. The Ezra Klein Show-Podcast / NYT
