Book/Podcast and Video Favorites
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
Cory Booker: ‘This is why I fight.’ By Jonathan Capehart / Wash Post Podcast
Whitney Houston confidante Robyn Crawford confirms their queer relationship. By Trish Bendix / NBC News
Saeed Jones on “How We Fight For Our Lives” and writing with “skin in the game.” By D. Watkins / Salon
Paul Butler on the Podcast to talk AG Barr, Texas Cops and Criminal and Racial Justice. By Kary Antholis / Crime Story
Prince’s Memoir, ‘The Beautiful Ones,’ By Erica Thompson / HuffPost
Blood, Sweat, and Tears: A New Book on the History of Black College Football. By J.T. Roane / AAIHS
Ta-Nehisi Coates discusses his powerful debut novel, The Water Dancer, with Ibram X. Kendi.
An Early Case For Reparations. Two new books tell the stories of people kidnapped and sold into slavery. By Eric Herschthal / The New Republic
Ta-Nehisi Coates on His Debut Novel “The Water Dancer,” Slavery & Reparations. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
Watch White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Nation’s Divide. By Carol Anderson / YouTube
How Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Novel Reckons With the Past. By Eric Herschthal / The New Republic
Slavery and the Holocaust: How Americans and Germans Cope With Past Evils. By Susan Neiman / NYT
Dismantling the Myth of the “Black Confederate.” By Rebecca Onion / Slate.
