Book/Podcast and Video Favorites
What Was Saved. Sarah Broom’s New Orleans saga. By Lovia Gyarkye / The Nation
‘Dying of whiteness’ during the coronavirus pandemic. By Jonathan Capehart / Wash Post Podcast
Larry Wilmore: Trump ‘Was a Lock’ Before the Coronavirus. By Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast Podcast
Grand. A Grandparents Wisdom for a Happy Life. By Charles Johnson
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You. By Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
W.E.B. Du Bois: A New Book On The Life Of A Radical Scholar. By J. T. Roane / AAIHS
Featured – Watch “FDR Second Bill of Rights Speech Footage” on YouTube
Coronavirus is exploiting ‘the fissures of society,’ the Rev. William Barber says. By Jonathan Capehart / Wash Post Podcast
Alicia Keys performs her new song, “Good Job.” / You Tube
Lessons in Self-Sufficiency. The Blacks of Pin Point Georgia. A Documentary Directed by Jeff Bednarz / You Tube
Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: A New Book on Popular Black History in Postwar America. By E. James West
President Barack Obama endorses Joe Biden For President / You Tube
Watch the Trailer for Damien Chazelle’s New Jazz Drama ‘The Eddy.’ By Claire Shaffer / Rolling Stone
Voter Suppression by Pandemic. By Kevin Townsend / The Atlantic Podcast
COVID-19 Sacrifice Zones: Coronavirus Devastates Black Communities Historically Denied Healthcare. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
Black Bourgeois: A New Book About The Dilemma Of Black Middle-Class Embodiment In The Post-Civil Rights Era. By AAIHS Editors
Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On”: A listening guide. By Kenneth Womack / Salon
A’Lelia Bundles Is On A Mission To Tell The Truth About Madam C.J. Walker. By Philip Lewis / HuffPost
An insight into Kamala Harris, a potential running mate for Joe Biden. By Jonathan Capehart / Wash Post
‘Unworthy Republic’ Takes an Unflinching Look at Indian Removal in the 1830s. By Jennifer Szalai / NYT
What’s holding America back? ‘Racial hostility,’ author Eduardo Porter says. By Sandra Lilley / NBC News
Fate and Fury in James McBride’s “Deacon King Kong.” By Jonathan Dee / The New Yorker
In ‘Minor Feelings,’ Asian American Racial Trauma Is Laid Bare. By Elise Hu / NPR
Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder of the Civil Rights Era – By Jerry Mitchell
What It Means to Be Black in America. Six short films for Black History Month. By Maris Curan / NYT
Ta-Nehisi Coates on why political power isn’t enough for the right. By Ezra Klein / Vox Podcast
