Book/Podcast and Video Favorites
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…