Book/Podcast and Video Favorites
A Review of 2021 Books in Black Intellectual History. By Robert Greene II / AAIHS
Father John Dear on Desmond Tutu & Thich Nhat Hanh: Two Peacemakers Who Changed the World. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
Taye Diggs ‘Why?’: Son inspired his new book on racial injustice. By Elise Brisco / USA Today
Eric Williams and the Tangled History of Capitalism and Slavery. By Gerald Horne / The Nation
‘A Lot of People Knew:’ Watch the Official Trailer for W. Kamau Bell’s Bill Cosby Docuseries. By Tomas Mier / Rolling Stone
Eric Dickerson Brings the Smoke By Dave Zirin / The Nation
Nikole Hannah-Jones on the power of collective memory. By Code Switch / NPR
They came, they saw, they reckoned? By Jennifer Chudy and Hakeem Jefferson / NPR Podcast
Randall Kennedy Says It Loud. By Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins / The Nation
Rare Toni Morrison Short Story To Be Published This Month. By AP and NPR
Carmelo Anthony shares his story in ‘Where Tomorrows Aren’t Promised.’ By Jonathan Capehart / Wash Post Podcast
A New Origin Story: The 1619 Project. By Nikole Hannah Jones / NYT Magazine
Angela Davis on Imagining New Worlds, the Campaign to Free Mumia and the Biden Presidency. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
Inside Soul Train Awards 2021: BET celebrates 50th anniversary of Soul Train getting down. CBS News Video
Are We Witnessing the Mainstreaming of White Power in America. By Ezra Klein / NYT Podcast
Is It Time to Abandon the Idea of an ‘Asian American’ Identity? By Ezra Klein / NYT Podcast
Remembering the Black lifesavers of Pea Island. By Bill Rhoden / The Undefeated Video
Enslaved Revolutionary Women: An Author Interview with Karen Cook-Bell. By Karen Cook Bell . AAIHS
