Book/Podcast and Video Favorites
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
The mothers of Malcolm X, MLK and James Baldwin: New book explores how they shaped their sons. By Gillian Brockell / Wash Post
Richard Wright’s Novel About Racist Police Violence Was Rejected in 1941; It Has Just Been Published. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
‘Watch the show, folks’: Va. trooper no longer employed after playing to camera in violent stop of Black driver. By Justin Jouvenal / Wash Post
Slave traders Rothman review: New history Ledger and the Chain explodes all the old myths. By Rebecca Onion / Slate
The Historian Annette Gordon-Reed Gets Personal in ‘On Juneteenth.’ By Jennifer Szalai / NYT
How Integration Came to the American League, in Cleveland’s Glory Days. By John Williams / NYT
John Lewis’s posthumous new graphic novel will be out this summer, in time for a new battle over voting rights. By Michael Cavna / Wash Post
How Our Tax Code Is Rigged Against Black Americans. By Michael Mechanic / Mother Jones
Don Lemon loses it on Sen. Tim Scott for ‘woke supremacy’ comment: ‘What are you doing?’ Yahoo News
2021 Finalists for the Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History. By AAIHS Editors
“Renegades” Podcast Review: Obama and Springsteen Are Here to Lull America. By Lauren Michele Jackson / The New Yorker
