Book/Podcast and Video Favorites
Ta-Nehisi Coates on His Debut Novel “The Water Dancer,” Slavery & Reparations. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
Watch White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Nation’s Divide. By Carol Anderson / YouTube
How Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Novel Reckons With the Past. By Eric Herschthal / The New Republic
Slavery and the Holocaust: How Americans and Germans Cope With Past Evils. By Susan Neiman / NYT
Dismantling the Myth of the “Black Confederate.” By Rebecca Onion / Slate.
Mass Incarceration. Throughline an NPR Podcast
How to Be an Antiracist: Ibram X. Kendi. An Interview / Democracy Now
Toni Morrison’s powerful words on racism. The Guardian Video
‘The Accident Of Color’ Looks At The Failure Of Reconstruction. By Kamil Ahsan / NPR
‘Hands Up, Don’t Shoot’ Examines What Led To Ferguson And Baltimore Protests. By Nicholas Cannariato / NPR
Jim Crow’s Last Stand: The Death of the Non-Unanimous Jury. Video by Sean Mattison / The Atlantic
They Called Us Enemy By George Takei (A Review)
MSNBC’s Joy Reid: How America can save itself from Trump and Trumpism. By Dean Obeidallah / Salon
Here’s What Ta-Nehisi Coates Told Congress About Reparations. By The New York Times
Review: The Wrenching ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’ Becomes an Opera. By Anthony Tommasini / NYT
‘Furious Hours’ By Cacey Cep. A Review By Stephen Phillips / LA Times
Is America Ready to Make Reparations? By David Remnick / The New Yorker Radio Hour
The Mobile Resistance. By Manisha Sinha / The Nation
