Book/Podcast and Video Favorites
If You Read One Book This Juneteenth, Make it Zora Neale Hurston’s “Barracoon.” By Angela Johnson / The Root
The League: A Documentary on Negro League Baseball. By Sam Pollard and Ahmir Questlove / Tribeca Film Festival
Slow Burn: Becoming Justice Thomas By Joel Anderson, Sophie Summergrad, Sam Kodner and Joel Levin / Slate Podcast
Black or white? Christian minister redefines racial and ethnic identity in a mixed world. By Kathryn Post / RNS
How Black Women Writers Got It Done. By Marina Magloire / The Nation
“Our Migrant Souls” author Héctor Tobar: the challenge of ‘Latino.’ By Raul A. Reyes / NBC News
‘Lincoln’s God’ holds magnifying glass to Civil War president’s faith. By Tom Deignan / NCR
When Black Liberation Is the Family Business. By Michael P. Jeffries / NYT
FRONTLINE Presents “Clarence and Ginni Thomas: Politics, Power and the Supreme Court.” By PBS.
Is America Two Nations? By Mike Podhorzer and Felicia Wong / The New Republic Podcast
A look at the history of racism in America and its role in today’s divisions. By Judy Woodruff and Frank Carlson / PBS
Malcolm X at 98: Angela Davis on His Enduring Legacy & the “Long Struggle for Liberation.” By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
The Rise and Fall of “Woke” with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi. By Audie Cornish / CNN Podcast
‘Anti-Asian Racism’ names the sin of white supremacy in Catholic Church. By Clarrissa V. Aljentera / NCR
Chimamanda Adichie: How I Became Black in America. By Chimamanda Adichie / The Atlantic
Russell Westbrook Means Business. By Matt Craig / Forbes
Christian Faith Was Jackie Robinson’s Haven in a Heartless World. By Clayton Trutor / Christianity Today
‘Morning Joe’ Says the ‘Bill Will Come Due’ for Evangelicals Who Support Donald Trump (Video) / The Wrap
What Martin Luther King, Jr.,’s New Biographer Reveals. By Kelefa Sanneh / The New Yorker
12 modern disciples follow the subversiveness of Jesus in ‘People Get Ready.’ By Shannon Wimp / NCR
‘Anti-Asian Racism’ names the sin of white supremacy in Catholic Church. By Clarissa V. Aljentera / NCR
The Damage of Division. By Mike Cosper and Nicole Martin / Christianity Today Podcast
Heather McGhee on Moving Beyond “Drained-Pool Politics.” By Felicia Wong and Michael Tomasky / TNR Podcast
C.L.R. James, Man of Paradox. By Gerald Horne / The Nation
America is being destroyed by domestic hate, National Urban League report says. By Justin Gamble / CNN
Howard Thurman’s Biographer: An Author Interview with Peter Eisenstadt. By Tejai Beulah Howard / AAIHS
