Book/Podcast and Video Favorites
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
Jim Crow North: A New Book about Segregation and Struggle outside the South. By J.T. Roane / AAIHS
The Art of Unruliness. Saidiya Hartman’s book evokes the longings of black women once labeled “wayward.” By Joanna Scutts / The New Republic
Baltimore Writer D. Watkins: “We Speak for Ourselves: A Word from Forgotten Black America.” Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
‘When They See Us’ Trailer: Ava DuVernay’s Central Park Five Mini-Series Features Felicity Huffman. By Bruce Fretts / NYT
Scholar Jonathan Metzl: White supremacy is literally killing white people. By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
In ‘Stony The Road,’ Henry Louis Gates Jr. Looks At The Period After Reconstruction. By Michael Schaub / NPR
America’s legacy of racial terror and Charles W. Chesnutt’s “The Marrow of Tradition.” By Wiley Cash / Salon
The Roots of Police Violence in Chicago. Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
Excellent James Baldwin speech in Berkeley (1979)
Timuel Black’s ‘Typical’ Life. By Norman Stockwell / The Progressive
(We digress) God Offers People of Alabama New Bibles to Replace Ones Trump Signed. By Andy Borowitz / The New Yorker
The Gay, Black Civil Rights Hero Opposed to Affirmative Action. By Coleman Hughes / NYT
Toni Morrison: First Lady of Letters. By James McBride / NYT
