Book/Podcast and Video Favorites
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
Students Of Color Reflect On Surviving Parkland. By HuffPost Video
Spike Lee: Racism in the DNA of USA. By Christiane Amanpour / CNN World
How Should Americans Tackle Anti-Semitism? By Emma Green / The Atlantic Video
“American Soul,” Reviewed: “Soul Train” and the Making of a Mogul. By Troy Petterson / The New Yorker
Fighting Without A Gun: Being Black In World War II. By HuffPost Video
Driving While Black – African Americans on the Road in the Era of Jim Crow. By Ric Burns / Steeplechase Films
A New Film Offers a Multitude of Answers to the Question “What Is Democracy?” By Marsha Green / The New Yorker
Here’s what’s really at stake for Asian Americans in the Harvard affirmative action case. Jenelle Wong / NBC News
‘Unexampled Courage’ Is The Civil Rights Book About the 1940s You Need to Read Now. By Christopher Dickey / The Daily Beast
The weight of being fat and black in America is worth more consideration than goes into a cheap joke. By Steven W. Thrasher / NBC News
White Identity Politics Aren’t Going Anywhere. By Thomas B Edsall / NYT
The Best Black History Books of 2018 by AAAIHS Editors
He Served the Longest Sentence of Any Innocent U.S. Inmate. Cassandra Evaniskovia via Lonelyleap / The Atlantic Video
A Baptist Preacher’s Buddhist Teacher: How My Journey with Daisaku Ikeda made Me a Better Christian by Lawrence E. Carter
Letter from a Region in My Mind by James Baldwin / The New Yorker
