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Coronavirus is exploiting ‘the fissures of society,’ the Rev. William Barber says. By Jonathan Capehart / Wash Post Podcast
Alicia Keys performs her new song, “Good Job.” / You Tube
Lessons in Self-Sufficiency. The Blacks of Pin Point Georgia. A Documentary Directed by Jeff Bednarz / You Tube
Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: A New Book on Popular Black History in Postwar America. By E. James West
President Barack Obama endorses Joe Biden For President / You Tube
Watch the Trailer for Damien Chazelle’s New Jazz Drama ‘The Eddy.’ By Claire Shaffer / Rolling Stone
Voter Suppression by Pandemic. By Kevin Townsend / The Atlantic Podcast
COVID-19 Sacrifice Zones: Coronavirus Devastates Black Communities Historically Denied Healthcare. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
Black Bourgeois: A New Book About The Dilemma Of Black Middle-Class Embodiment In The Post-Civil Rights Era. By AAIHS Editors
Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On”: A listening guide. By Kenneth Womack / Salon
A’Lelia Bundles Is On A Mission To Tell The Truth About Madam C.J. Walker. By Philip Lewis / HuffPost
An insight into Kamala Harris, a potential running mate for Joe Biden. By Jonathan Capehart / Wash Post
‘Unworthy Republic’ Takes an Unflinching Look at Indian Removal in the 1830s. By Jennifer Szalai / NYT
What’s holding America back? ‘Racial hostility,’ author Eduardo Porter says. By Sandra Lilley / NBC News
Fate and Fury in James McBride’s “Deacon King Kong.” By Jonathan Dee / The New Yorker
In ‘Minor Feelings,’ Asian American Racial Trauma Is Laid Bare. By Elise Hu / NPR
Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder of the Civil Rights Era – By Jerry Mitchell
What It Means to Be Black in America. Six short films for Black History Month. By Maris Curan / NYT
Ta-Nehisi Coates on why political power isn’t enough for the right. By Ezra Klein / Vox Podcast
2020 Finalists For The Pauli Murray Book Prize In Black Intellectual History. By AAIHS Editors
Early Novel Written By Free Black Woman Called Out Racism Among Abolitionists. By Jack Rodolico / NPR
“Everywhere You Don’t Belong.” By Gabriel Bump / A Review by D. Watkins
Our Racist Presidents: New Book Pulls Back the Veil. By Kiki Monifa / The Progressive
The Black Republic: A New Book about African Americans and Haiti. By Brandon R. Byrd
Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC: By Paula C. Austin
Racism Is Not Dead in Sports. By Dave Zirin / The Nation Podcast
“Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War.” A Review by Casey Cep / The New Yorker
Hello, Privilege. It’s Me, Chelsea | Official Trailer | Netflix
Kiley Reid’s “Such a Fun Age” Satirizes the White Pursuit of Wokeness. By Stephanie Hayes / The Atlantic
