Book/Podcast and Video Favorites
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
What’s Really Behind the 1619 Backlash? An Interview With Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates. By Ezra Klein / NYT Podcast
Ibram X. Kendi on What Conservatives — and Liberals — Get Wrong About Antiracism. By Ezra Klein / NYT Podcast
How Ty Seidule went from revering Robert E. Lee to being one of his fiercest detractors. By Jonathan Capehart / Cape Up Wash Post Podcast
Inside the Bill Clinton–Vernon Jordan Bromance. By Gary Ginsberg / Vanity Fair
Adam Serwer On New Book: ‘The Cruelty Is The Point’ In Trump’s America. By Sarah McCammon / NPR Podcast
Linda Thomas-Greenfield talks about Black Lives Matter and her experiences as a career diplomat. By Jonathan Capeheart / Cape Up Wash Post Podcast
Watch a Never-Before-Aired James Baldwin Interview From 1979. By Adrienne Westenfeld / Esquire
Oprah’s latest Book Club pick, ‘The Sweetness of Water,’ is a miraculous debut. By Ron Charles / Wash Post
In Her New Memoir, Ursula M. Burns Recounts Blazing a Trail to the Top of Xerox. By Dwight Garner / NYT
The White Right to Bear Arms. A review of “The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America.” By Emilo Leanza / The Progressive
How America Remembers— and Distorts — Its Slavery Past. By Julian Lucas / NYT
Obama Explains How America Went From ‘Yes We Can’ to ‘MAGA.’ By Ezra Klein / NYT Podcast
Second Amendment is not about guns — it’s about anti-Blackness, a new book argues. By John Blake / CNN
Katherine Johnson of ‘Hidden Figures’ tells her story in her own words. By Lisa Page / Wash Post
Keith Ellison reflects on the year since the murder of George Floyd. By Jonathan Capehart / Wash Post Podcast
Understanding the History of Black Rebellion. By Jeremy Scahill / Intercepted Podcast
Does Teaching America It’s Racist Make It Less Racist? By Jane Coaston / Wash Post Podcast
