Book/Podcast and Video Favorites
How World War II Looked to African Americans. By Jennifer Szalai / NYT
“We Have Faced Threats This Big Before”: Rachel Maddow’s New Podcast Is a History Lesson on American Democracy Under Assault. By Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair
Watch “Why Don’t Black People Breakdance Anymore?” on YouTube / By Ralph Crowder
Why Celeste Ng’s new book places an Asian American mom in the eye of a social justice movement. By Kimmy Yam / NBC News
In ‘Our Unfinished March’ Eric Holder argues for reforming the Supreme Court. By Michael Martin / NPR
White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America. By Christopher Metress / Christian Scholars
Imani Perry’s Capacious History of the South. By Robert Greene II / The Nation
15 Beloved Black Banned Books You Must Read Now. By Angela Johnson / The Root
Online Forum–Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America. By AAIHS Editors
Ibram X. Kendi encourages kids to ask difficult questions about U.S. history. By Jonathan Capehart Podcast / Wash Post
Ken Burns on the Holocaust, FDR, and Anti-Semitism. Michael Tomasky / The New Republic Podcast
‘Jim Crow’s Pink Slip’: How 1954 Brown decision affects teachers today. By Chelsea Sheasley / CSM
White Fear: How the Browning of America Is Making White Folks Lose Their Minds a book by Roland Martin and Leah Lakins. Bookshop.org
For A Black Jesuit In The US, Racism Is A Crucible. By Patrick Saint-Jean / NCR
Ibram X. Kendi’s ‘Magnolia Flower’ Weaves A Black And Native Love Story. By Char Daston / Wbez News
Playing Through Fire: Athletes In An Age Of Reaction. By Dave Zirin
In ‘Learning Our Names,’ Asian American Christian authors reclaim their stories. By Kathryn Post / RNS
Lorraine Hansberry and the Black Radical Tradition. By Shane Vogel / AAIHS
White and Black: A Historian Traces African-American Influences in the United States. By Drew Gilpin Faust / NYT
How homebuyers of color are disproportionately impacted by rising mortgage rates. By Paul Solman / PBS Podcast
Meet the man who helped Michael K. Williams tell his story. By Scott Neumyer / Andscape
Why the Evangelical Movement Is in ‘Disarray’ After Dobbs. The Ezra Klein Show / NYT Podcast
Book aims to undo the tangles of race and Catholicism. By Maureen H. O’Connell / NCR
Viral Video Of Black Man’s Violent Arrest In Mississippi Sparks Investigation. By Michael Goldberg / HuffPost
What’s God Got to Do With It? The Rise of Christian Nationalism in American Politics. By Jane Coaston / The Arguement Podcast
History Refocused. A new lens on America’s past. By Cassie Spodak, Channon Hodge and Margaret Dawson / CNN
