Book/Podcast and Video Favorites
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
A History of Soul Care. By Barbara L. Peacock and Nicole Massie Martin / Christianity Today
Mark Whitaker on 1966 – the year Black Power challenged the civil rights movement. By Jonathan Capehart / Wash Post Podcast
Sammy Davis Jr. Book ‘Dancing Down the Barricades’ Traces His Legacy. By Theodore Hamm / The Daily Beast
King scholar applies his philosophies of truth to a ‘post-truth age.’ By Adelle M. Banks / RNS
How to Be a (YOUNG) Antiracist — Ibram X. Kendi and Nic Stone
A history of the Holocaust that probes the use and abuse of memory. By Judy Batalion / Wash Post
Jamila Minnicks’ debut novel raises complex questions about the costs of integration. By Lawrence O’Neal / Andscape
