Book/Podcast and Video Favorites
Monuments, statues and a national reckoning on racial injustice. By Judy Woodruff / NPR
Trevor Noah Nails ‘The Truth’ About Police Killing Of Rayshard Brooks. By Ron Dicker / HuffPost
Angela Davis on Abolition, Calls to Defund Police, Toppled Racist Statues & Voting in 2020 Election. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
The author of ‘White Fragility’ doesn’t think ‘most white people care about racial injustice.’ Jonathan Capehart / Wash Post Podcast
My Vanishing Country: A Memoir. By Bakari Sellers
Ilhan Omar On Her Memoir And Moving The Needle Toward Progressive Policies. By Lulu Garcia-Navarro / NPR
Spike Lee’s “Da 5 Bloods” takes it back to Vietnam: Watch the trailer. By Claire Shaffer / Salon
Watch Trevor Noah Mock Fox News on Obama Commencement Speeches / You Tube
What comes after reparations. The story of Rosewood, Florida. Wash Post Podcast
LeVar Burton Reads. The Best Short Fiction, Hanpicked by the Best Voice In Podcasting
True Crime In Indian Country: “Yellow Bird” Belongs On Your Quarantine Reading List. By Becca Andrews / Mother Jones
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
