Book/Podcast and Video Favorites
Joan Baez Reveals ‘Surprise Dimension’ of New ‘Civil War’ Video – Jon Bilstein / Rolling Stone
A Perilous Path: Talking Race, Inequality, and the Law by Sherrilyn Ifill, Lorretta Lynch, Bryan Stevenson and Anthony C. Thompson
A no-holds-barred, red-hot discussion of race in America today from some of the leading names in the field, including the bestselling author of Just Mercy,…
Barack Obama Sits Down With John Lewis to Discuss MLK’s Legacy and the Power of Activism – Inae Oh / Mother Jones
The Jamie Weinstein Show : An interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates / National Review
Lynching in America: Targeting Black Veterans – A Report by the Equal Justice Initiative
After Bruno Mars is accused of cultural appropriation, black celebrities come to his defense – Deena Zaru / CNN
How It Feels to Be a Problem – Tynesha Foreman / The Atlantic Video
Oscar-nominated film about Emmett Till contemplates how racial terror affects those left behind – Soraya Nadia McDonald / The Undefeated
What is the ‘State of the Black Athlete’? As Told in Pictures / The Undefeated
Watch : What Audiences Miss In “Black Panther” / Salon Talks
The Notorious Book that Ties the Right to the Far Right – A Review by Sarah Jones / New Republic
Watch Kendrick Lamar, SZA’s Vibrant New ‘All the Stars’ Video – Jon Blistein / Rollling Stone
Watch – The Racist History of Cartoons by Shon Arieh-Lerer and Scott McGee / Slate
Watch : Systemic Racism And Air Pollution Create A Dangerous Reality For Black People / HuffPost
Watch: It’s Time to End Mass Incarceration by Brave New Films / The Nation
Rev. William Barber: Trump is a Symptom of a Deeper Moral Malady Behind Racist, Xenophobic Policies – Democracy Now
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan and the American Political Tradition By Linda Gordon
Watch – The 5 best hip-hop albums of 2017 – Rachel Leah / Salon
Jay Z’s New Music Video Uses America’s Long History of Racist Cartoons to Deliver a Haunting Message – Austin Elias-de-Jesus / Slate
The Legend of the Black Mecca: Politics and Class in the Making of Modern Atlanta by Maurice J. Hobson
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
Black Reconstruction in America,1860-1880 by W.E.B. Du Bois
In order to better understand the phenomenon of Trumpism and his supporters, we submit to our readers Du Bois’s analysis of the environment leading up to…
Obama invokes Nazi Germany in warning about today’s politics – Miranda Green / CNN
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nihisi Coates
In these “urgently relevant essays,”* the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me “reflects on race, Barack Obama’s presidency and its jarring…
The Talented Ribkins by Ladee Hubbard
For sheer reading pleasure Ladee Hubbard’s original and wildly inventive novel is in a class by itself.” —Toni Morrison “The Talented Ribkins is a charming and…
