Book/Podcast and Video Favorites
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.
Mass Incarceration. Throughline an NPR Podcast
How to Be an Antiracist: Ibram X. Kendi. An Interview / Democracy Now
Toni Morrison’s powerful words on racism. The Guardian Video
‘The Accident Of Color’ Looks At The Failure Of Reconstruction. By Kamil Ahsan / NPR
‘Hands Up, Don’t Shoot’ Examines What Led To Ferguson And Baltimore Protests. By Nicholas Cannariato / NPR
Jim Crow’s Last Stand: The Death of the Non-Unanimous Jury. Video by Sean Mattison / The Atlantic
They Called Us Enemy By George Takei (A Review)
MSNBC’s Joy Reid: How America can save itself from Trump and Trumpism. By Dean Obeidallah / Salon
Here’s What Ta-Nehisi Coates Told Congress About Reparations. By The New York Times
Review: The Wrenching ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’ Becomes an Opera. By Anthony Tommasini / NYT
‘Furious Hours’ By Cacey Cep. A Review By Stephen Phillips / LA Times
Is America Ready to Make Reparations? By David Remnick / The New Yorker Radio Hour
The Mobile Resistance. By Manisha Sinha / The Nation
Threat of violence against Jews in US at alarming levels. By Sara Sidner / CNN Video
Buried Truths. A Podcast Series. By WABE and NPR
