Book/Podcast and Video Favorites
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
How Southern California helped birth white Christian nationalism. By Yonat Shimron / Religion News
Stephen A. Smith talks about debate TV shows and his new memoir. By Ben Strauss / Wash Post
What America’s Thinking- How Black Voters Cast Their Ballots In the 2022 Midterms: Analysis. By Rafael Bernal and Cheyanne M. Daniels / The Hill
A Revelatory Tour of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Forgotten Teachings. By Ezra Klein / NYT Podcast
New biography details important social experiment in Springfield. By G. Michale Dobbs / The Reminder
“Never Forget Our People Were Always Free”: Civil Rights Leader Ben Jealous on His New Memoir. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
Popular Rule. Has the United States Ever Been a Democracy? By Sophia Rosenfeld / The Nation
The Roots of Black Pain in America. By Kaitlyn Greenidge / NYT
Happy Birthday, Max! By Janus Adams / The Janus Adams Podcast
In George McCalman’s Dazzling New Book, Black History Is Everyone’s History. By Emily Hofstaedter / Mother Jones
Proof That Republicans Know Exactly How Racist They Are. By Kevin M. Kruse. The Daily Beast Podcast
