Book/Podcast and Video Favorites
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
The Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka’s First Novel Since 1973. By Juan Gabriel Vásquez / NYT
The Other Side of Black Success in Martin Kilson’s Odyssey. By Joshua L. Crutchfield / AAIHS
The bestseller ‘Black Boy Joy’ highlights the bright but overlooked experiences of Black boyhood. By Keishel Williams / Wash Post
What critical race theory is really about. By Jason Carroll / CNN Video
Southlake: A viral video, a diversity plan, and an election that changed an affluent Texas town. NBC News Video
Clint Smith III on confronting slavery’s legacy in America. By Jamil Smith / Vox
A Triumphant Debut Novel on Black History and Coming of Age in the South. By Veronica Chambers / NYT
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois’ is the kind of brilliant epic that comes around only once in a decade. By Ron Charles / Wash Post
WATCH: Race Matters — America After George Floyd | A PBS NewsHour Special. By Judy Woodruff / PBS News Hour
A new book makes the case that HBCUs are owed reparations. By Curtis Bunn / NBC News
What Should We Be Teaching When It Comes to Racism and America’s Past? The Argument / NYT Podcast
