Book/Podcast and Video Favorites
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
A pioneering Black author’s novel takes us to a Wakanda-like civilization. By Michael Dirda / Wash Post
New devotional book centers the liberation of Black lives as a sacred matter. By Nicole E. Symmonds / NCR
In the Face of Black Pain, Elizabeth Alexander Turns to Art. By Michell S. Jackson / NYT
“Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power”: New Film on Radical Voting Activism in 1960s Alabama. By Sam Pollard and Geeta Gandbhir / Democracy Now
Tonight I Saw A Falling Star – The James Brown Mystery. By Thomas Lake / CNN Audio Podcast
Black Religion and Political Thought. By Joseph Winters / AAIHS
Linda Thomas-Greenfield’s journey from the segregated South to the United Nations. By Jonathan Capehart / Wash Post Podcast
Michelle Obama has a new role. By Nicole Hemmer / CNN
Black Friday Special: Howard Zinn & Voices of a People’s History of the United States. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
Imani Perry Wins National Book Award for ‘South to America.’ By Elizabeth A. Harris / NYT
