Book/Podcast and Video Favorites
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
The Lasting Impact Of Police Brutality On Black Families. By Juana Summers / NPR Podcast
W.E.B. Du Bois and the Legacy — and Betrayal — of Black Soldiers. By Matthew Delmont / NYT
Grappling With the Overthrow of Reconstruction. By Eric Herschthal / TNR
‘Weathering’ makes the case that the stress of poverty and racism damage health. By Dave Davies / NPR
Video Shows Virginia Man’s Death in Custody. By Campbell Robertson and Christine Hauser / NYT
Disturbing history of negative health outcomes for Black pregnant women, study reveals. By Rehema Ellis / NBC News
Why are so many Americans poor? Because we allow it, two books argue. By Timothy Noah / Wash Post
Mormons know how the Church sanctioned racial exclusion. That policy has a paper trail. By Jana Riess / RNS
For FBI Legend J. Edgar Hoover, Christian Nationalism Was The Gospel Truth, Argues New Book. By Bob Smietana / RNS
Geraldine Brooks’ novel ‘Horse’ reckons with racism past and present. By Winfred Morgan / NCR
2023 Finalists for the Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History. By AAIHS Editors
Behind the Scenes with Thelonious Monk in “Rewind & Play.” By Richard Brody / The New Yorker
Colin Kaepernick on new book and possible NFL future: “Passion is still there.” By Adiaana Diaz and Analisa Novak / CBS News
Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation. By Susan Schafer / Topeka and Shawanee Library
The New Black Canon: Books, Plays and Poems That Everyone Should Know. By Adam Bradley / NYT
Powerful docuseries spotlights missing and murdered Indigenous women. By Chris Byrd / NCR
Mayor Levar Stoney on preserving history while tearing down Confederate statues. By Jonathan Capehart / Wash Post Podcast
The State of Black Tampa Bay: An Exclusive Town Hall. By Deanne King / Newsbreak
The South Has Got Something To Say. By Jared Anthony Loggins / Dissent Magazine
An Extraordinary Memoir of a Black American Boyhood. By Bryan Washington / NYT
The Right to Discriminate. By Jordon Smith / Intercept Podcast
