Book/Podcast and Video Favorites
Freedom and the price of the ticket. By Kelly Brown Douglas / The Christian Century
Trump Is Building the Blue Scare. The Ezra Klein Show / NYT Podcast
Five things we learned from 107 Days, Kamala Harris’s campaign trail memoir. By David Smith / The Guardian
Watch “Nikole Hannah-Jones on ‘1619,’ Trump and the Power of Dissent in 2025” on YouTube / By Wesley Morris
Decades after Stella got her groove back, Terry McMillan just gets better. By Lisa Page / Wash Post
His Book on Charlie Kirk Was About to Come Out. Then His Subject Was Murdered. By Kiera Butler / Mother Jones
Virginia Pastor’s sermon on Charlie Kirk’s death sparks debate. By Katie Lusso / WUSA9
Don’t Erase Augustine’s Africanness. By Phillip Jenkins / Christianity Today
Traitors to the Earth: Fascism, Christian Nationalism, and the Tech Elite. By Kelly Hayes / Truthout Podcast
Trump vs. Truth: The Fight for America’s History. By Jeffrey Toobin / NYT Podcast
Slavery and Capitalism : A New Marxist History. By David McNally / UC Press
‘Nobody Can Give You Freedom’: A closer look at Malcolm X’s words. By Ken Makin / CS Monitor
Labor Day Special Featuring Howard Zinn & Voices of a People’s History of the United States. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
The Life Of Harriet Wilson: 1st Black Woman To Publish A Novel. By Shannon Dawson / Newsone
When Is It Genocide? The Ezra Klein Show / NYT Podcast
Black Moses’ tells a powerful story of political ambition. By Aram Goudsouzian / Wash Post
Baldwin: A Love Story. By Nicholas Boggs / Amazon Books
Disturbed About Man. By Benjamin E. Mays / Amazon Books
History Matters Now More Than Ever. By Françoise N. Hamlin and Charles W. McKinney, Jr / AAIHS
Turf Wars: The Fight for the Soul of America’s Game. By DeMaurice Smith / Amazon Books
A Forgotten Migration: An Interview with Crystal R. Sanders. By Ashley Everson / AAIHS
What the story of the Charleston church murders teaches. By Mark Silk / RNS
How the George Floyd Protests Changed America, for Better and Worse. By Justin Driver / NYT
Behind Trump and Vance Is This Man’s Movement. By Ezra Klein / NYT Podcast
Florida is the laboratory for MAGA — and American autocracy. By Chauncey Devega / Salon
David Brooks on Moral Courage for a Soulless Age. The Russell Moore Show / Christianity Today Podcast
The Trouble of Color: An Interview with Martha S. Jones. By Robert Greene II / AAIHS
Racism by law: A review of Rebirth of a Nation. By Jeannine Hill Fletcher / The Christian Century
EXCLUSIVE: Mahmoud Khalil, Palestinian Activist Jailed by ICE for 104 Days, in First Live Interview. By Amy Goodman / Democracy Now
Joy Reid Floats Conspiracy Theory That the 2026 Election Will Be Rigged: ‘Insane’ to ‘Assume We’re Going to Have Normal Elections.’ By Joe DePaolo / Mediate
