Book/Podcast and Video Favorites
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
Filmmaker James Stern on the era of “American Chaos”: “Worst situation since the Civil War” (Official Trailer)
In ‘Becoming,’ Michelle Obama Mostly Opts for Empowerment Over Politics – Jennifer Szalai / NYT
‘Amazing Grace’: Watch Long-Awaited Aretha Franklin Concert Film Trailer – Ryan Reed / Rolling Stone
How The Fugitive Slave Act Ignited A ‘Struggle For America’s Soul’ – Terry Gross / NPR
Lost in a Week of Hateful Violence, a White Man Killed Two Black Shoppers at a Kentucky Supermarket / Democracy Now
Watch : The Eugenics Crusade / PBS Video
Trevor Noah’s Powerful Message on Trump and Male Victimhood During #MeToo – Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast
Watch : Why Does Mississippi’s Flag Still Have A Confederate Symbol? – HuffPost Video
This Creative Mash-Up Clip Of ‘Pulp Fiction’ And The Kavanaugh Hearing Once Again Proves The Internet Is Undefeated – Blavity
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics by Donna Brazile, Yolanda Caraway, Leah Daughtry and Minyon Moore
‘Arthur Ashe: A Life’ by Raymond Arsenault
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan – A Review ( When a Slave Becomes Free)
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
