Book/Podcast and Video Favorites
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
One hope for the next generation of Black athletes. By Kevin Carroll / The Undefeated
The Book That Should Change How Progressives Talk About Race. By Michelle Goldberg / NYT
In ‘The Dead Are Arising,’ Malcolm X’s spirit is still very much alive. By Justin Tinsley / The Undefeated
Stacey Abrams on her New Legal Thriller ‘While Justice Sleeps.’ By Jazz Tangcay / Variety
The Essential Toni Morrison. By Veronica Chambers / NYT
In Netflix’s stirring “Amend,” stars anguish over the injustices that led to the 14th Amendment. By Melanie McFarland / Salon
What Racism Costs All Americans. By Ezra Klein / NYT Podcast
‘The Three Mothers’ honors the women who made Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and James Baldwin. By Lisa Page / Wash Post
It’s hard to find children’s books with Black characters, so a coach’s family wrote its own. By Emily Giambalvo / Wash Post
Jonathan Metzl on what’s driving polarization in a post-Trump America — and how to fix it. By Jonathan Capehart / Wash Post Podcast
