Book/Podcast and Video Favorites
Tommy Orange Is Trying to “Undo the White-Dominant American Narrative” With His New Book, Wandering Stars. By Kate Nelson / Vanity Fair
Open Season – Written by: Ben Crump. Legalized Genocide of Colored People.
Joy Reid’s ‘Medgar and Myrlie’ traces extraordinary lives and love of civil rights leaders. By Geoff Bennett and Karina Cuevas / PBS
Michele Norris shines light on ’Our Hidden Conversations.’ By Jonathan Capehart / Wash Post Podcast
In ‘Preaching Racial Justice,’ Black Catholics shed ecumenical light on growing need. By Lydia Ocasio-Stoutenburg / NCR
A Candle in the Dark. A History of Morehouse College. By Edward A. Jones / Valley Forge, Pennsylvania: Judson, 1967.
Our true feelings about race and identity are revealed in six words. By Michele Norris / Wash Post
What It Was Like to Be a Black Patient in a Jim Crow Asylum. By Julia Metraux / Mother Jones
‘Equality’ says the path has always been fraught. Review by Becca Rothfeld / Wash Post
Naomi Osaka Book Reveals: Beating Serena Williams, Firing Her Coach. By Madeline Roth / The Daily Beast
A Reading List to Better Grasp the New Great Black Migration. By Adam Mahoney / Capital B
Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism. By Maddow, Rachel / Amazon
Disturbed About Man by Benjamin E Mays. Former President of Morehouse College / Amazon
The Best Black History Books of 2023. By AAIHS Editors
The Work of Black Life: A Conversation With Christina Sharpe. By Rhoda Feng / The Nation
Tim Alberta Book Review: America’s White Evangelical Problem. By Sarah Jones / New York Intelligencer
Tupac Shakur’ captures an icon’s spark and decades of Black history. By Jesse McCarthy / Wash Post
The Religious Right Finally Calls Christ’s Teachings, “Woke,” “Liberal,” and “Weak.” By Julie Nichols / Patheos
New book ‘bell hooks’ Spiritual Vision’ celebrates and examines hooks’ interior life. By Amanda Bolanos / NCR
It’s time to rethink parole in the age of mass incarceration. By Kristen Martin / Wash Post
‘Becoming Color Courageous’ with Michelle Sanchez. By Rasool Berry / Christianity Today Podcast
‘Stamped From the Beginning’ Examines Racism and White Supremacy in Documentary From Roger Ross Williams. By Jazz Tangcay / Variety
Video shows a struggle before Georgia deputy shoots exonerated man. By AP and NBC News
Antisemitism and the Jewish Identity. By Mike Cooper / The Bulletin Christianity Today
Documentary on Black millennials depicts wide range of religion, rebellion. By Adelle M. Banks / RNS
“Black AF History” author on whitewashing the past: “They have tried every way possible to erase us.” By D. Watkins / Salon
