Book/Podcast and Video Favorites
Watch Nikole Hannah-Jones on DOJ’s Attack on Affirmative Action & How School Segregation Never Ended / Democracy Now
Black innovators shine through history in these animated films for kids – Jenna Gray / PBS
Watch – What the health documentary online full 2017 / You Tube
What the Health is a ground breaking feature length documentary from the award-winning filmmakers of Cowspiracy, that follows the exciting journey of intrepid filmmaker, Kip…
Summer Reading For Your Woke Kid – Kayla Lattimore / NPR
‘Snowfall’ is compelling and believable — which is why it could use a disclaimer – Hank Stuever / Wash Post
Spike Lee teams up with singer-songwriter Stew on a Trump-protest-ballad music video – Sarah Polus / Wash Post
Watch – 6 years old and Desegregating a School – Bayete Ross Smith, Logan Jaffee and Samantha Quick / NYT
Rising Star : The Making of Barack Obama
Rising Star is the definitive account of Barack Obama’s formative years that made him the man who became the forty-fourth president of the United States—from…
Watch – ‘Marshall’ Brings Thurgood Marshall’s Early Civil Rights Crusade To The Big Screen – Matthew Jacobs / Huff Post
A white cop dies and a young black man spends years in jail for a crime he didn’t do – Colbert King / Wash Post
John Boyega Is in Jeopardy in the Gripping New Trailer for Detroit – Marissa Martinelli / Slate
Melanin Madness! Black Panther Trailer Drops and Folks Lose Their Minds – Angela Helm / The Root
Watch How White Nationalists Are Made And Radicalized – Peter Simi / Huff Post
National Urban League State Of Black America Town Hall Recap – Roland Martin / You Tube
Essay – The Work You Do, The Person You Are – Toni Morrison / The New Yorker
Notorious B.I.G., Tupac Shakur Documentaries Headed to A&E – Daniel Kreps / Rolling Stone
Watch Wayne Shorter Share Miles Davis’ Wisdom With Jon Batiste – Jon Bilstein / Rolling Stone
Watch the More Realistic More Depressing Alternative Ending of Get Out – Aisha Harris / Slate
African American Government Scientist Crowned Miss USA – Rebecca Shapiro / Huff Post
‘Buena Vista Social Club’ Sequel Gets Vibrant First Trailer – Daniel Kreps / Rolling Stone
See Big Sean Tackle ‘Hate, Police Brutality’ in Stirring ‘Light’ Video – Daniel Kreps / Rolling Stone
Book Excerpt : The Battle for the Soul of America Is Being Fought in the States – Rev. Dr. William J. Barber / Bill Moyers
“Strange Victory” :The film acts as a kind of collective psychoanalysis of a segregated and prejudiced nation
Anthony Joshua beats Wladimir Klitschko at Wembley – in pictures – Daffydd Bynon / The Guardian
Watch Obama’s First Post-Presidency Public Appearance – Tessa Stuart / Rolling Stone
Watch – The First Trailer for “Dear White People” – Aisha Harris / Slate
