Book/Podcast and Video Favorites
Watch the More Realistic More Depressing Alternative Ending of Get Out – Aisha Harris / Slate
African American Government Scientist Crowned Miss USA – Rebecca Shapiro / Huff Post
‘Buena Vista Social Club’ Sequel Gets Vibrant First Trailer – Daniel Kreps / Rolling Stone
See Big Sean Tackle ‘Hate, Police Brutality’ in Stirring ‘Light’ Video – Daniel Kreps / Rolling Stone
Book Excerpt : The Battle for the Soul of America Is Being Fought in the States – Rev. Dr. William J. Barber / Bill Moyers
“Strange Victory” :The film acts as a kind of collective psychoanalysis of a segregated and prejudiced nation
Anthony Joshua beats Wladimir Klitschko at Wembley – in pictures – Daffydd Bynon / The Guardian
Watch Obama’s First Post-Presidency Public Appearance – Tessa Stuart / Rolling Stone
Watch – The First Trailer for “Dear White People” – Aisha Harris / Slate
DAMN : Kendrick Lamar’s scorcher of a new album is an urgent sermon for a troubling time – Carl Wilson / Slate
Watch – Hip-hop is politics – Carlos Waters / Vox
Watch – A Story of Redemption in Flint, Michigan – Dana Romanoff and Nadine Ajaka / The Atlantic
Watch Snoop Dogg, Alicia Keys Honor Tupac With Riveting Medley at Rock Hall – Elias Leight / Rolling Stone
Watch “Rev Dr William J Barber II – When Silence is Not an Option – Riverside Church / You tube
Video Breaks Down Why Machismo Isn’t Synonymous With Latino Men – Carolina Moreno / Huff Post
Watch – New Netflix Film Shows A ‘Real Representation’ Of America’s Housing Projects – Brennan Williams / Huff Post
Watch – John Lewis’s speech against the ‘Trumpcare’ is an instant classic – Clinton Yates / The Undefeated
“The Lost Negroes of North America ” – WVON interviews Ralph L. Crowder III / You Tube
Perri Small from Chicago’s powerhouse WVON interviews Ralph L. Crowder III about his new documentary film, “The Lost Negroes of North America.” The upcoming documentary…
Watch – What Does a Reformed Racist Look Like? – Nadine Ajaka / The Atlantic Video
Scott Shepherd is a former grand dragon of the Klu Klux Klan in Tennessee, but now refers to himself as a reformed racist. Shepherd’s troubled…
Watch AGAINST ALL ODDS: The Fight for a Black Middle Class – Bill Moyers
In this revealing documentary, veteran journalist Bob Herbert examines the often heroic efforts of black families to pursue the American dream in the face of…
Watch – Why African Americans left the South – what’s bringing them back – Carlos Waters / Vox
The Great Migration is a modern movement that, in many ways, is still unfolding. More than 40 percent of black Americans left Southern states to…
Watch Playwright August Wilson on Writing About Black America – Bill Moyers
One of the films in contention for multiple awards at the Oscars this past Sunday was Fences, a cinematic adaptation of an August Wilson play ushered onto…
Watch Fusion – White People An Explainer / You Tube
Whiteness & the privilege it carries with it is a powerful thing. Watch here
Watch testimonies of what makes someone American – NYT
What makes someone American? How do you define American identity? When do you feel most American? Or least? Nine American citizens describe their struggle to…
I Am Not Your Negro: A Companion Edition to the Documentary Film Directed by Raoul Peck
To compose his stunning documentary film I Am Not Your Negro, acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck mined James Baldwin’s published and unpublished oeuvre, selecting passages from…
They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement by Wesley Lowery
A New York Times bestseller A New York Times Editors’ Choice “Essential reading.”–Junot Diaz “Electric…so well reported, so plainly told and so evidently the work…
A ‘Dear White People’ Netflix Teaser Just Dropped And It’s Everything – Zeba Bay / Huff Post
The teaser trailer for Netflix’s highly-anticipated “Dear White People” series has finally been released. Based on the indie hit that premiered with rave reviews at…
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson
NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | NAMED A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2017 BY: The Washington Post • Bustle • Men’s Journal • The…
Difficult Women by Roxane Gay
Award-winning author and powerhouse talent Roxane Gay burst onto the scene with An Untamed State and the New York Times bestselling essay collection Bad Feminist…
Watch : Angela Davis on Resisting Trump: We Need to Be More Militant in Defending Vulnerable Populations / Democracy Now
Watch the full speech by Angela Davis at the Women’s March on Washington. “Over the next months and years, we will be called upon to…
Watch : Ta-Nehisi Coates Schools Seth Meyers on Racism in America – Alexandra Rosenmann / Alternet
Ta-Nehisi Coates was “very happy to be wrong” about the presidential election—the 2008 presidential election, that is. And after interviewing President Obama for nearly five…