Book/Podcast and Video Favorites
Defining Latino: Young people talk identity, belonging – NBC News
Watch : African-Americans and home schooling: ‘A way of freedom’ / NBC News
Watch : Obama Begins Midterm Push, Urging Rebuke Of Trump And Politics Of ‘Fear And Anger’ – Jessica Taylor / NPR
Black Lives Matter activist Darnell Moore looks back on the movement 5 years from its creation – Salon Talks
Before Aretha Franklin was a superstar, her father shone on a different stage – John Blake / CNN
Still Processing – We Spy Two BlacKkKlansmen — and One is Omarosa / NYT Podcast
National Prison Strike Begins: Prisoners in 17 States Demand End to “Slave Labor” Behind Bars – Democracy Now
If you want to know exactly what racial profiling looks like, just watch this video – SemDem / Daily Kos
Documenting Hate: New Doc Lays Bare the Violent White Supremacy that Exploded in Charlottesville – Democracy Now
“Bring the War Home”: The Long History of White Power and Paramilitary Violence in the United States by Kathleen Belew
Watch The Trailer For Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman – Studio@Gizmodo
Political Animals by Rick Shenkman – A Conversation with Chauncey Devega / Salon
The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy Tyson (An interview on On Point)
The Plot to Destroy Democracy by Malcolm Nance – We’re “on the cusp” of “losing the American constitutional republic forever.”
Jay-Z Would Like You to Watch the Trailer for Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story – Carmen Russo / Slate
Laura Ingalls Wilder’s name stripped from children’s book award over ‘Little House’ depictions of Native Americans – Meagan Flynn / Wash Post
Roots of white rage: America’s clash of class and race, from the Civil War to the rise of Trump – Chauncey Devega / Salon
WHAT TRUTH SOUNDS LIKE by Michael Eric Dyson – Kirkus Review
The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism by Howard Bryant ( A Short Summary)
Following in the footsteps of Robeson, Ali, Robinson and others, today’s Black athletes re-engage with social issues and the meaning of American patriotism. It used…