Book/Podcast and Video Favorites
“Everywhere You Don’t Belong.” By Gabriel Bump / A Review by D. Watkins
Our Racist Presidents: New Book Pulls Back the Veil. By Kiki Monifa / The Progressive
The Black Republic: A New Book about African Americans and Haiti. By Brandon R. Byrd
Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC: By Paula C. Austin
Racism Is Not Dead in Sports. By Dave Zirin / The Nation Podcast
“Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War.” A Review by Casey Cep / The New Yorker
Hello, Privilege. It’s Me, Chelsea | Official Trailer | Netflix
Kiley Reid’s “Such a Fun Age” Satirizes the White Pursuit of Wokeness. By Stephanie Hayes / The Atlantic
REMEMBRANCE by Rita Woods. Kirkus Review
The Bitter (Occasionally Brave) Legacy of Selling Blackness. By Aaron Ross Coleman / The Nation
10 black podcasts we loved from 2019. By Eryn Matthewson / The Undefeated
See Octavia Spencer As Madam C.J. Walker In First Look At Netflix’s Limited Series. By Kemberly Richards / Huff Post
The Girl in the Photograph: The True Story of a Native American Child, Lost and Found in America. By Senator Byron L. Dorgan / Amazon
Jennifer Hudson Wails as Aretha Franklin in First Official Teaser Trailer For Respect Biopic. By Karu F. Daniels / The Root
Our 25 can’t-miss books of 2019. The books you’ve just got to give for the holidays. By Soraya Nadia McDonald / The Undefeated
Black Voters Fight to Count in Georgia. Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, Danielle Hewitt and Mara Silvers / Slate
11-year-old black ballerina makes history in ‘The Nutcracker.’ By Rehema Ellis / NBC News Video
Stacey Abrams says she would consider being vice president. By Jonathan Capehart / Wash Post Podcast
The best Latino books, according to Latinx writers. By Rigoberto Gonzalez / NBC News
5 African American memoirs that belong on your shelf. By Lakshmi Gandhi / NBC News
A Racist Book’s Malign and Lingering Influence. By Elian Peltier and Nicholas Kulish / NYT
On and Off the Debate Stage, Democrats Contend with Race. By Eric Lach / The New Yorker Podcast
How Music Helped Jimmy Dennis Survive a Wrongful Conviction and 25 Years on Death Row. By Rolling Stone Video
The 1619 Project, Live at the Smithsonian. By Nicole Hannah-Jones / NYT
‘Black Radical’ Remembers a Bold Life and Reclaims It for Our Current Moment. By Jennifer Szalai / NYT
Darryl Pinckney on Race, Class and Being ‘Busted in New York.’ By Lauretta Charlton / NYT
