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Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates is arguably the strongest voice of his generation on the role of race and identity in American politics and culture. He's the author of several books, including “Between the World and Me,” “We Were Eight Years in Power,” and “The Beautiful Struggle,” and the recipient of a MacArthur “genius” grant and a National Book Award. For this week's episode, we feature a conversation between Coates and host Jason Johnson, recorded live at the recent Cascade PBS Ideas Festival. They discuss everything from the diss track battle between Drake and Kendrick Lamar, to the campus protests over the Middle East, to the limits –and necessity– of participating in electoral politics. Guest: Award-winning writer Ta-Nehisi Coates Podcast production by Kristie Taiwo-Makanjuola Want more A Word? Subscribe to Slate Plus to immediately access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Or, visit slate.com/awordplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates is arguably the strongest voice of his generation on the role of race and identity in American politics and culture. He's the author of several books, including “Between the World and Me,” “We Were Eight Years in Power,” and “The Beautiful Struggle,” and the recipient of a MacArthur “genius” grant and a National Book Award. For this week's episode, we feature a conversation between Coates and host Jason Johnson, recorded live at the recent Cascade PBS Ideas Festival. They discuss everything from the diss track battle between Drake and Kendrick Lamar, to the campus protests over the Middle East, to the limits –and necessity– of participating in electoral politics. Guest: Award-winning writer Ta-Nehisi Coates Podcast production by Kristie Taiwo-Makanjuola Want more A Word? Subscribe to Slate Plus to immediately access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Or, visit slate.com/awordplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates is arguably the strongest voice of his generation on the role of race and identity in American politics and culture. He's the author of several books, including “Between the World and Me,” “We Were Eight Years in Power,” and “The Beautiful Struggle,” and the recipient of a MacArthur “genius” grant and a National Book Award. For this week's episode, we feature a conversation between Coates and host Jason Johnson, recorded live at the recent Cascade PBS Ideas Festival. They discuss everything from the diss track battle between Drake and Kendrick Lamar, to the campus protests over the Middle East, to the limits –and necessity– of participating in electoral politics. Guest: Award-winning writer Ta-Nehisi Coates Podcast production by Kristie Taiwo-Makanjuola Want more A Word? Subscribe to Slate Plus to immediately access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Or, visit slate.com/awordplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates is arguably the strongest voice of his generation on the role of race and identity in American politics and culture. He's the author of several books, including “Between the World and Me,” “We Were Eight Years in Power,” and “The Beautiful Struggle,” and the recipient of a MacArthur “genius” grant and a National Book Award. For this week's episode, we feature a conversation between Coates and host Jason Johnson, recorded live at the recent Cascade PBS Ideas Festival. They discuss everything from the diss track battle between Drake and Kendrick Lamar, to the campus protests over the Middle East, to the limits –and necessity– of participating in electoral politics. Guest: Award-winning writer Ta-Nehisi Coates Podcast production by Kristie Taiwo-Makanjuola Want more A Word? Subscribe to Slate Plus to immediately access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Or, visit slate.com/awordplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates is arguably the strongest voice of his generation on the role of race and identity in American politics and culture. He's the author of several books, including “Between the World and Me,” “We Were Eight Years in Power,” and “The Beautiful Struggle,” and the recipient of a MacArthur “genius” grant and a National Book Award. For this week's episode, we feature a conversation between Coates and host Jason Johnson, recorded live at the recent Cascade PBS Ideas Festival. They discuss everything from the diss track battle between Drake and Kendrick Lamar, to the campus protests over the Middle East, to the limits –and necessity– of participating in electoral politics. Guest: Award-winning writer Ta-Nehisi Coates Podcast production by Kristie Taiwo-Makanjuola Want more A Word? Subscribe to Slate Plus to immediately access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Or, visit slate.com/awordplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ermel Elementary School principal, Erik Torres, joins Aldine ISD Chief of Staff, Sheleah D. Reed, APR, to discuss what it was like for him to grow up in Aldine. Torres is a product of Aldine ISD and loved the community so much that he came back to lead the elementary campus he attended. In this episode, we discuss the importance of leaders knowing their students, families, and communities. Torres also shares his journey into education, year one of the Additional Day School Year (ADSY) program, what makes Ermel students and staff special, and he even shared a few travel stories. RESOURCES: Aldine ISD to Implement ADSY Program at Ermel Elementary, Vines Primary Books mentioned in this episode: We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates Lord of the Flies by William Golding A Promised Land by Barack Obama Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama Special Thanks to April Praise, Bryce Powers, Luke Rabalais, Sheleah Reed, and Valonia Walker
Ermel Elementary School principal, Erik Torres, joins Aldine ISD Chief of Staff, Sheleah D. Reed, APR, to discuss what it was like for him to grow up in Aldine. Torres is a product of Aldine ISD and loved the community so much that he came back to lead the elementary campus he attended. In this episode, we discuss the importance of leaders knowing their students, families, and communities. Torres also shares his journey into education, year one of the Additional Day School Year (ADSY) program, what makes Ermel students and staff special, and he even shared a few travel stories. RESOURCES: Aldine ISD to Implement ADSY Program at Ermel Elementary, Vines Primary Books mentioned in this episode: We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates Lord of the Flies by William Golding A Promised Land by Barack Obama Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama Special Thanks to April Praise, Bryce Powers, Luke Rabalais, Sheleah Reed, and Valonia Walker
"We Were Eight Years in Power" author Ta-Nehisi Coates reflects on Barack Obama's presidency. Originally aired October 30, 2017. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
"We Were Eight Years in Power" author Ta-Nehisi Coates reflects on Barack Obama's presidency. Originally aired October 2017. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
Ta-Nehisi Coates, with his skillful writing and thoughtful analysis, has emerged as one of the most important voices of our times. In this episode, Ta-Nehisi and host Brad Johnson discuss his upbringing, the deep reverence he holds for black institutions, the strong desire for sense of place and home, his sense of freedom in myth writing, the professional distance needed to write about certain people, allowing a book to be written on its own terms, his love of the djembe drum, and thoughts on economic inequality. Ta-Nehisi is an award-winning author and journalist. He is the author of the bestselling books, The Beautiful Struggle, We Were Eight Years in Power, The Water Dancer, and Between the World and Me, which won the National Book Award in 2015.As a journalist with a career spanning over two decades, he's written for numerous publications including The Washington City Paper, The Village Voice, The New Yorker and The New York Times. As a National Correspondent for The Atlantic, he penned numerous articles and essays, including the National Magazine Award-winning 2012 essay Fear of a Black President and the influential June 2014 essay The Case for Reparations. Ta-Nehisi will soon add screenwriter to his list of credentials. He is currently writing the screenplays for the upcoming films Wrong Answer, Superman and the film adaptation of his first fiction novel, The Water Dancer. While his successful run writing Marvel's Black Panther ended in April 2021, he continues to write Marvel's Captain America. He is currently in his fourth year as a distinguished writer in residence at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. * * * Instagram Corner Table Talk and Post and Beam Hospitality LinkedIn Brad Johnson Medium Corner Table Media E.Mail brad@postandbeamhospitality.com For more information on host Brad Johnson or to join our mailing list, please visit: https://postandbeamhospitality.com/ Corner Table™ is a trademark of Post & Beam Hospitality LLC © Post & Beam Hospitality LLCSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Kala and Jenny meet again about a year after our previous conversation to chat about books we've read lately, from presidential memoirs to romance to books that haven't had enough attention. We tackle backlogs and bookstacks along the way.Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 216: Eloquent and Elegant. Subscribe to the podcast via this link: FeedburnerOr subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: SubscribeOr listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via StitcherOr listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed: A Promised Land by Barack ObamaXeni by Rebekah WeatherspoonThe Rib King by Ladee HubbardTelephone by Percival EverettSing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn WardOther mentions:Becoming by Michelle ObamaDreams from my Father by Barack ObamaHard Choices by Hillary Rodham ClintonWe Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi CoatesRafe: A Buff Male Nanny by Rebekah WeatherspoonThe Talented Ribkins by Ladee HubbardSalvage the Bones by Jesmyn WardMen We Reaped by Jesmyn WardThe Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha PhilyawLong Bright River by Liz MooreUntraceable by Sergei Lebedev, translated by Antonina W. BouisRelated episodes:Episode 096 - Not Without Hope with Yanira RamirezEpisode 143 - Reading the Pain with KalaEpisode 151 - The Stories They Tell with KarenEpisode 184 - Theme Night at Book Club with KalaEpisode 213 - Funicular Reads with BiancaStalk us online: Kala on TwitterJenny at GoodreadsJenny on TwitterKala on FacebookKala's blog, Reader then Blogger Kala is @ReaderthenBlogger on InstagramJenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.
节目摘要 围绕塔那西斯·科茨的两部作品：《在世界与我之间》和《美丽的抗争》，我们对当中所涉及的“身体”、“美国梦者”和“抗争”等话题简单地聊了一聊。 节目备注 订阅听友通讯请点击这里。 欢迎通过微博关注我们的节目@不丧Podcast和女主播@constancy好小气。 关于线上读书微信群：由于目前群人数超过100人，无法继续通过扫码入群。想要入群的朋友可以先加我的微信号（ID: hongming_qiao），然后再拉你入群。 我们的电报(Telegram)听友群：不丧电报群 我们播客的邮箱地址：busangpodcast@gmail.com 节目开头配乐Italian Afternoon by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license, 艺术家页面。 这集播客中提到的相关作品的介绍和链接： 书 塔那西斯·科茨，《美丽的抗争》 塔那西斯·科茨，《在世界与我之间》 香奈儿·米勒，《知晓我姓名》 Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents 詹姆斯·鲍德温，《下一次将是烈火》 Elijah Anderson, Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Innner City Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (Justice, Power, and Politics) 电影 《逃出绝命镇》（Get Out）（2017） 《托尼·莫里森：我的作品》（Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am）（2019） 文章 Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Case for Reparations, The Atlantic 如何收听「不丧」 任何设备都可以通过访问「不丧」的网站在线收听 我们推荐使用泛用型播客客户端收听「不丧」 泛用型播客客户端直接通过播客上传者提供的RSS向用户提供播客内容和信息，不会有第三方的干涉；并且只要上传者更新了Feed，就能在客户端上收听到节目。 iOS平台上我们推荐使用Podcast（苹果预装播客客户端），Castro，Overcast和Pocket Casts。 Android平台上收听方式可以参照这里。 macOS和Windows平台可以通过iTunes收听。 现在你也已经可以在小宇宙、Spotify和Google Podcast平台上收听我们的节目。
节目摘要 围绕塔那西斯·科茨的两部作品：《在世界与我之间》和《美丽的抗争》，我们对当中所涉及的“身体”、“美国梦者”和“抗争”等话题简单地聊了一聊。 节目备注 订阅听友通讯请点击这里。 欢迎通过微博关注我们的节目@不丧Podcast和女主播@constancy好小气。 关于线上读书微信群：由于目前群人数超过100人，无法继续通过扫码入群。想要入群的朋友可以先加我的微信号（ID: hongming_qiao），然后再拉你入群。 我们的电报(Telegram)听友群：不丧电报群 我们播客的邮箱地址：busangpodcast@gmail.com 节目开头配乐Italian Afternoon by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license, 艺术家页面。 这集播客中提到的相关作品的介绍和链接： 书 塔那西斯·科茨，《美丽的抗争》 塔那西斯·科茨，《在世界与我之间》 香奈儿·米勒，《知晓我姓名》 Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents 詹姆斯·鲍德温，《下一次将是烈火》 Elijah Anderson, Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Innner City Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (Justice, Power, and Politics) 电影 《逃出绝命镇》（Get Out）（2017） 《托尼·莫里森：我的作品》（Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am）（2019） 文章 Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Case for Reparations, The Atlantic 如何收听「不丧」 任何设备都可以通过访问「不丧」的网站在线收听 我们推荐使用泛用型播客客户端收听「不丧」 泛用型播客客户端直接通过播客上传者提供的RSS向用户提供播客内容和信息，不会有第三方的干涉；并且只要上传者更新了Feed，就能在客户端上收听到节目。 iOS平台上我们推荐使用Podcast（苹果预装播客客户端），Castro，Overcast和Pocket Casts。 Android平台上收听方式可以参照这里。 macOS和Windows平台可以通过iTunes收听。 现在你也已经可以在小宇宙、Spotify和Google Podcast平台上收听我们的节目。
节目摘要 围绕塔那西斯·科茨的两部作品：《在世界与我之间》和《美丽的抗争》，我们对当中所涉及的“身体”、“美国梦者”和“抗争”等话题简单地聊了一聊。 节目备注 订阅听友通讯请点击这里。 欢迎通过微博关注我们的节目@不丧Podcast和女主播@constancy好小气。 关于线上读书微信群：由于目前群人数超过100人，无法继续通过扫码入群。想要入群的朋友可以先加我的微信号（ID: hongming_qiao），然后再拉你入群。 我们的电报(Telegram)听友群：不丧电报群 我们播客的邮箱地址：busangpodcast@gmail.com 节目开头配乐Italian Afternoon by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license, 艺术家页面。 这集播客中提到的相关作品的介绍和链接： 书 塔那西斯·科茨，《美丽的抗争》 塔那西斯·科茨，《在世界与我之间》 香奈儿·米勒，《知晓我姓名》 Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents 詹姆斯·鲍德温，《下一次将是烈火》 Elijah Anderson, Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Innner City Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (Justice, Power, and Politics) 电影 《逃出绝命镇》（Get Out）（2017） 《托尼·莫里森：我的作品》（Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am）（2019） 文章 Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Case for Reparations, The Atlantic 如何收听「不丧」 任何设备都可以通过访问「不丧」的网站在线收听 我们推荐使用泛用型播客客户端收听「不丧」 泛用型播客客户端直接通过播客上传者提供的RSS向用户提供播客内容和信息，不会有第三方的干涉；并且只要上传者更新了Feed，就能在客户端上收听到节目。 iOS平台上我们推荐使用Podcast（苹果预装播客客户端），Castro，Overcast和Pocket Casts。 Android平台上收听方式可以参照这里。 macOS和Windows平台可以通过iTunes收听。 现在你也已经可以在小宇宙、Spotify和Google Podcast平台上收听我们的节目。
Victor and Carl are joined with longtime friend-of-the-show Afton Ward to talk about Insecure: Season 4! Listen as they dish on the happenings of the season, the characters, and the ending... Victor also highlights the 2019 sci-fi video game "Control" and Ta-Nehisi Coates's book "We Were Eight Years in Power."... Carl mentions a Todd McFarlane documentary on Sy-Fy... and Afton and Carl argue with Victor about why he shouldn't have kids. All this insecuriTEA is ready to spill, so let's GET IT! Recorded July 28, 2020 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SPOTIFY: open.spotify.com/show/5s0mE5bruPX…-xTVayA3XP9lQeCA Email: CodexPrimePodcast@gmail.com CATCH CODEX PRIME AT: Facebook: www.facebook.com/codexprime Twitter: twitter.com/codexprimecast Instagram: instagram.com/codexprimepodcast/ iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/codex…id998035389?mt=2 YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCbDMNJNgnM6y3WB3fA1a1HA SoundCloud: @codex-prime Victor Omoayo - twitter.com/VictorOmoayo - Instagram: @victoromoayo Carl Byrd - Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat: @mrbyrd1027 - bookmrbyrd1027@gmail.com
In the lead up to Season 2, Jamila Rizvi and Astrid Edwards are back with a special episode featuring JanFran, Leah Purcell and Jessie Tu. Introduction: Why a special episode? Chapter 1: Jamila and Astrid talk accountability and reading audits. Chapter 2: Jan Fran reflects on her experience of the 2005 Cronulla Riots in Western Sydney, introduces her forthcoming book, and recommends Talkin' Up to the White Woman by Aileen Moreton-Robinson. Chapter 3: Leah Purcell shares her thoughts on her family’s heritage of oral storytelling and recommends a number of books, including Is That You, Ruthie? and Bittersweet Journey by Ruth Hegarty, Don’t Take Your Love To Town by Ruby Langford Ginibi and Many Lifetimes: A Memoir by Audrey Evans. Chapter 4: Jessie Tu considers her motivations for writing her 2020 debut novel A Lonely Girl Is A Dangerous Thing and recommends the nourishment of essays by feminists Olivia Laing, Deborah Levy, Rebecca Solnit and Jia Tolentino, as well as the work Kim Ji-young, Born 1982 by Cho Man-joo. Recommendations: For fiction lovers, Astrid recommends Octavia Butler’s Kindred and Jamila recommends The White Girl by Tony Birch. For those looking for non-fiction, Jamila recommends Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge and Astrid recommends We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates. CHAT WITH US Join our discussion using hashtag #AnonymousWasAWomanPod and don't forget to follow Jamila (on Instagram and Twitter) and Astrid (also on Instagram and Twitter) to continue the conversation. This podcast is brought to you by Future Women. The podcast is produced by Bad Producer Productions. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Ta-Nehisi Coates talks about his book of Atlantic essays "We Were Eight Years in Power" and weighs in on going from Barack Obama to Donald Trump inside the White House.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ta-Nehisi Coates talks about his book of Atlantic essays "We Were Eight Years in Power" and weighs in on going from Barack Obama to Donald Trump inside the White House. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We're three months into quarantine and 13 days into protests and we have some feelings. But as the world turns upside-down, the people of the internet still insist on tryna get their beaks wet, so here we are. Topics include Racism, Political Cartoons, Disney Knock-offs, 3D Printers, and more. If you are looking for anti-racist literature and you're new to audible, we have two Ta-Nehisi Coates' books for you to choose from! "Between the World and Me" is hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading”, a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race” (Rolling Stone). Available here: https://www.audible.com/pd/Between-the-World-and-Me-Audiobook/B010N1IC5A?asin=B010N1IC5A&source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&fbclid=IwAR0IEszimyCR8P4K1XC-tTFLfB0EeXdYb_ax8As5DPWhzqAJjY0XO-Theiw "We Were Eight Years in Power". In this “urgently relevant”* collection featuring the landmark essay “The Case for Reparations”, the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me “reflects on race, Barack Obama’s presidency and its jarring aftermath”* - including the election of Donald Trump. Available here: https://www.audible.com/pd/We-Were-Eight-Years-in-Power-Audiobook/B074F4X4TY?asin=B074F4X4TY&source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&fbclid=IwAR0TwD2fKwyzMF5L6LlmJqo7_O3yTD31205eW1uAdpNE-FWaRdzLetkUUck Send your missed connection stories to craigcripod@gmail.com. And don't forget to follow us on Instagram @craigsistentialcrisis and like us on facebook!
Continuing the conversation around race relations in America, while still recognizing that June is Pride month Joe brings Cody Belew on the podcast this week. Joe and Cody talk about what Pride month has historically meant to Cody, as well as what it can mean now. They discuss how to use the framing of the original Stonewall riots to help further the discussion around race relations in America today. Check it out. Resources mentioned in the podcast are as follows - "We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy" by Ta-Nehisi Coates "1619 Podcast" by the NY Times Shaun King - Activist #ListenAndLearn #beabetterdad
Today, Kaytee is chatting with online friend Anna Hithersay. Kaytee and Anna both got started on the road to racial justice multiple years ago, but we do not claim to be experts. We do have a few years of reading and listening under our belts and want to point you toward the resources we have found and the places we have learned. This episode is meant to point OUTWARD, to give our white listeners the starting places, the books, podcasts, and accounts, and the conversations to get started. Tune in to hear about: How we each got started on the road to racial justice Anna’s “Do Better” book club and embracing the awkward Questions and Answers from our Currently Reading Bookish Friends A list of books and resources to get you started on your own journey And, of course, a book she wants to press into your hands. Connect with Anna on Instagram: @ahithersay and @comehither_andstay Minisode show notes are not timestamped, but this episode includes a huge list of resources. Here’s a comprehensive list of the books we mentioned (and the ones we skipped for time), the lists of Black bookstores and Black bookstagrammers you might want to start following, the podcasts and articles we talked about, and anything else I can link to that we mentioned. These show notes are meant to be a starting place, to hold information that you can come back to in order to continue this journey and find additional resources from our Black brothers and sisters who are lifting their voices. The work will not end anytime soon. Prepare for a long haul. Primer Books I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo The Fire This Time by Jesmyn Ward So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo Stamped: Racism, Anti-Racism and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi Me & White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad Be the Bridge by Latasha Morrison (Christian) Memoir You Can’t Touch My Hair and Other Things I Still Have to Explain by Phoebe Robinson Eloquent Rage by Brittney Cooper Born A Crime by Trevor Noah Well-Read Black Girl by Glory Edim The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clementine Wamariya Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates Becoming by Michelle Obama The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Men We Reaped by Jesamyn Ward Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay Fiction Starter Pack Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (YA) Roots by Alex Haley Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid The Underground Railroad or The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead Romance Authors of Color: Kennedy Ryan, Jasmine Guillory, Alisha Rai, Rebecca Weatherspoon, Talia Hibbert, Naleni Singh, Jackie Lao, Sonali Dev, Mariana Sabada An American Marriage by Tayari Jones Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson (YA) Sing, Unburied, Sing and Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo Kindred by Octavia Butler Deeper Topics The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander (mass incarceration) When They Call You a Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors & Asha Bandele (Black Lives Matter) Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson (Death Penalty and Mass Incarceration) The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson (history) Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi (history) How to Be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi (action steps) We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates (history and personal essay) Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum Shalom Sistas by Osheta Moore (Christian) Anti-Racist Kids Middle Grade The Crossover by Kwame Alexander This Book is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell Ghost Boys (upper middle grade) by Jewell Parker Rhodes Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson Ghost (Track Series) by Jason Reynolds Blended by Sharon M Draper Harbor Me by Jacqueline Woodson Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams Young Adult Dear Martin by Nic Stone Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds On the Come Up by Angie Thomas A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney (fantasy) I'm Not Dying with You Tonight by Kimberly Jones and Emily Segal Slay by Brittney Morris All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely Picture Books Hair Love by Matthew A Cherry The Colors of Us by Karen Katz The Skin You Live In by Michael Taylor and David Lee Csicsko People by Peter Spier Kadir Nelson's picture books Ezra Jack Keats' picture books Podcasts Episodes on race from The Liturgists: Racism in America, Anti-Racism 1619 Podcast Code Switch from NPR Yo, Is This Racist? Pod Save the People Sounds of Justice podcast (Christian) Seeing White On Ramp: Two Christians Talk About Race Ibram X Kendi with Brene Brown on Unlocking Us Places that You Might Donate NAACP ACLU Black Lives Matter National Bailout Fund Other Resources Sign Petitions Black Bookstagrammers - I shared a roundup, saved in my Anti-Racism story highlight Mockingbird history lessons on Patreon A list of Black-owned bookstores Anti-Racism Resources for White People Scraping Raisins: 70+ Race Resources for White People and 80+ MORE A Conversation with Ibram X Kendi about talking to Kids about race Be the Bridge courses - Whiteness 101, Talking to Kids about Race and Racism, Whiteness Intensive The 2020 Ultimate List of Diverse Children’s Books from Here Wee Read The Conscious Kid on Instagram Medium’s List of Anti-Racism Resources Common Sense Media - using media to raise anti-racist kids Vox’s List of Streaming Movies that are Anti-Racist
“For me, I believe that Black lives matter. That’s what I said. Anyone with a functioning brain understands that all lives matter. Anybody. But right now there is a portion of our community that is frustrated, and they are suffering, and they are hurting. So, as an empathetic Christian I’m gonna go and say I agree with the statement Black lives do matter. But I was glad some people disagreed with me, because I kept saying, do Black lives matter yes or no? yes but…I’m like there is no but. We disagree. Those are the same type of people that would have interrupted Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount. Jesus would have been like, blessed are the poor…no Jesus blessed are all people. Since when does highlighting one issue disparage another? Are we not secure enough to be able to sit here and go issue by issue and talk about one without disparaging another? Of course all lives matter, but it’s okay to say Black lives matter. What’s wrong with you? This is not rocket science. All lives matter. No kidding. That’s why Black lives matter, because until all lives matter equally, we need to focus on this.” -Carl Lentz, 2016 This is the most important episode I will ever release. I hope you approach it with an open heart. Just recently: George Floyd was murdered by a police officer while three other police officers stood by and did nothing. Breonna Taylor was in her home in the middle of the night when police broke in, unannounced, and shot her to death. Ahmaud Arbery was out for a run when two men chased him and shot him to death. Christian Cooper was bird watching in Central Park when a woman threatened to call the police and say that an African American man was threatening her life. He was not. It doesn’t stop there. The following Black men and women have been murdered by police: Philando Castile Atatiana Jefferson Eric Reason Natasha McKenna Botham Jean Walter Scott Bettie Jones Tamir Rice Michael Brown Dominique Clayton Eric Garner Trayvon Martin Tanisha Anderson Sandra Bland Freddie Gray THESE ARE JUST THE NAMES WE KNOW. Do you know how hard it is to find a full list of Black people who have been murdered at the hands of police brutality? Here’s a brief history of the Black lives lost in our country over the past few years along with the #Blacklivesmatter gaining momentum: · 2013: #Blacklivesmatter first appears on twitter · 7/17/14: Eric Garner dies in NY after being arrested · 8/9/14: Michael Brown is killed during an encounter with police officer in Ferguson, MO. · 11/22/14: Tamir Rice is killed by police in Cleveland while playing with a toy gun · 11/24/14: Announcement that there will be no indictment in Michael Brown case · 4/19/15: Freddie Gray dies in Baltimore while in police custody · 6/17/15: Charleston church shooting kills 9 people · 7/13/15: Sandra Bland is found hung in Texas jail cell STATS · 99% of killings by police from 2013-2019 have not resulted in officers being charged with crime. · Unarmed Black people were killed by police at 5x the rate of unarmed white people in 2015. · Police killed at least 104 unarmed Black people in 2015— nearly 2x a week. · 1 in 3 young Black men will be incarcerated in their life (compared to 1 in 17 white men). · 13TH DOC: “The film’s premise is that while the 13th Amendment to the Constitution eliminated slavery and involuntary servitude, it in effect had an unintentional loophole that asserted “except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.”” · Black people make up 6.5% of the American population but make up 40.2% of the prison population. · Our prison population went from less than 200k in 1970 to 2.3m today. This is what we refer to when we talk about mass incarceration. THERE ARE PROVEN STRATEGIES that significantly reduce police killings, but very few Police Departments have adopted them. These are: Requirements that officers use all means other than shooting (decreases death by 25%) Requires all use of force be reported (decreases death by 25%) Bans chokeholds + strangleholds (decreases death by 22%) Has use of force continuum (decreases death by 19%) Requires de-escalation (decreases death by 15%) Duty to intervene if another officer uses excessive force (decreases death by 9%) Restricts shooting at moving vehicles (decreases death by 8%) Requires warning before shooting (decreases death by 5%) *You can call your local representatives and demand these 8 things be instituted with your local law enforcement. Want to learn more? Click here: https://8cantwait.org WHY DO BLACK LIVES MATTER? My Personal Reckoning: 2016 · I didn’t realize my own white privilege for a long time. I felt better than the other white people when it came to bias and racism because I grew up in a broken home filled with drugs, addiction, affairs, and even lived in a town where I was a minority. The reality is I have loved Black culture for most of my life, but I have done very little to be an advocate for justice for my Black brothers and sisters. I’m so sorry for this. · I received a DM from a Black woman who encouraged me to diversify who I was interviewing on The Refined Woman. Almost all of my collaborations and interviews for the first few years of The Refined Woman were with white women. I was a white girl blogger. · In 2016 I also wrote an All Lives Matter blog post that fortunately never went live. I didn’t understand what it meant that Black Lives Matter. As a Christian I assumed didn’t all lives matter? Thank God I have a team, and thank God I didn’t go live with that painful article. I was very, very wrong. Black Lives Matter, and here’s why: Jesus was a 1st Century Palestinian Jewish man. He had brown skin and was hated by the religious, and beaten and killed by law enforcement. If he was alive today in America, he’d be a minority immigrant who probably wouldn’t step foot inside white evangelical churches except to flip over tables. The Western Evangelical Church in America has become a religion for rich, advantaged, and privileged white people—which is the exact opposite of the roots of Christianity and the life of Jesus. Jesus hung out with the oppressed people of society, those ostracized, those who didn’t feel safe in the church—those who were judged and cast off. He fought for justice, restored dignity and humanity from the woman at the well, woman caught in adultery, to touching people with contagious diseases and engaging with people outside of the Jewish law which would have made him unclean in Jewish circles. But he didn’t care, because He was on a mission to do God’s work. Friend, if you are a follower of Jesus and do not have a heart for justice, racial reconciliation and to see the systemic walls, pillars, and foundations of racism in our country to be dismantled, you are out of alignment with the heart of God. Who does Jesus care about? - Prodigal Son returns: the jealous brother instead of the father rejoicing over the return + safety of his son. But don’t I matter—OF COURSE YOU MATTER, BUT YOUR BROTHER WAS LOST + NOW IS FOUND. - Luke 15: Jesus leaves the 99 to go after the one sheep. He cares about the individual. It’s time to get back in touch with the heart of Jesus. Do all lives matter? YES. But until Black lives matter—we better go after that. Jesus went after the one. What can you do? #1: Acknowledge If we don’t heal our past, it will follow us. And ours is HAUNTING US. -Kat Harris 1. Until we acknowledge the experience of what it means to be a Black person in America there is no chance at healing. 2. When someone dies, you show up. 3. “I don’t know the full story.” You don’t have to. 4. “People are just reposting for attention…not for the right reasons.” You don’t know their hearts. And so what? Does that mean you get to stay silent? 5. Here’s what’s true: in 1619 was when the first wave of Black people were kidnapped from Africa to become slaves in Jamestown. July 4th isn’t a celebration of independence for Black people. They weren’t free when those freedom bells rang. America was built on the backs of terrorism and genocide and slavery of Black people, people of color and indigenous people. 6. If we don’t heal our past, it will follow us. And ours is HAUNTING US. 7. We have to look back before we can move forward. 8. One of the first things we can do is acknowledge our white privilege. What is white privilege and how do you know if you have it? Go through these statements. #2: Get Curious I STARTED NOTICING + GETTING CURIOUS: · Why did I have so few Black friends? · Why were there some Black people and people of color at my church but none on staff or leadership or in the decision-making rooms? · I changed churches because I wanted to be a part of a community with women in leadership, then I noticed almost every week at church I could count on one hand the number of Black people at my church…why? · Why were influential Black Christian people like Lecrae + Andre Henry leaving the church? · How come at my favorite salad place every single person in line buying was white and all the people working in the buffet are Black? · How come the expensive gym I had a membership to had mostly white members, and yet almost every single one of the people working there from front desk to maintenance are Black? · This started making me very uncomfortable. I didn’t know what to do—so I’d talk with my friends about it…but really I didn’t do much about it. I deeply regret this. #3: PRAY + REPENT: · When have you been complicit, silent, and chosen ignorance out of comfort and convenience? Write it down, say it out loud, pray, and repent. · Psalm 13 is great to walk through lament. · Psalm 51 is great to walk through repentance. #4: ACTIVATE: · Sign petitions for racial justice. change.org is a great start for this! · Talk with friends and family. · When you see racism, call it out. · Post on your platforms. · Call your local representatives and demand justice. · Support Black-owned businesses. · Donate to Historically Black Colleges and Universities. · Go to https://www.grassrootslaw.org to find out how you can support policing and justice in America. · Read this: 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice by Corinne Shutack #5: ORGANIZATIONS TO SUPPORT: · Equal Justice Initiative (Bryan Stevenson) · Be the Bridge (Latasha Morrison) and her wonderful resource page, “Where Do I Start?” · WhereChangeStarted.com has a great anti-racism starter kit · The Innocence Project · To help pay bail for protestors in NYC, money can be Venmo’ed to @bailoutnycmay. · City-specific bailouts. · ACLU · NAACP · UNCF #6: READ: “Stop asking us to give you books. Stop asking us to do research. Listen y’all were able to do mathematic equations through some Black women and then your own stuff and to be able to go to the moon, and put a flag in it and dance around and do the west coast strut. How in the world can you go from the earth to the moon and you can’t do research on the racial history that we need to fight in this country. I don’t want to be traumatized by teaching you history. I want you to grow up in your spiritual maturity, and grow up in your faith, and go on the sanctifying journey of overriding the patriotic way that we’ve learned history in America.” - Pastor Eric Mason 1. White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo 2. So You Want to Take About Race by Ijeoma Oluo 3. The Person You Mean to Be by Dolly Chugh 4. We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates 5. How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi 6. I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown 7. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates 8. Woke Church by Eric Mason 9. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander 10. Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman 11. Great Speeches by Frederick Douglass 12. Waking up White and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving 13. Ghetto by Mitchell Duneier 14. More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City by William Julius Wilson 15. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi 16. A Testament of Hope by Martin Luther King Jr. 17. Prejudice and Racism by James M. Jones 18. Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People by Mahzarin R. Banaji 19. Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Dr. Michael Eric Dyson 20. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou 21. All About Love by Bell Hooks 22. Well-Read Black Girl by Glory Edim 23. Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin 24. Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon 25. There Will Be No Miracles Here by Casey Gerald 26. Paradise by Toni Morrison 27. Healing Racial Trauma by Sheila Wise Rowe 28. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston 29. The Lies that Bind: Rethinking Identity by Kwame Anthony Appiah 30. The Very Good Gospel by Lisa Sharon Harper 31. The Prophetic Imagination by Walter Brueggemann 32. Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times by Dr. Soong-Chan Rah 33. Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America by Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith 34. Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson 35. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein 36. Human(Kind) by Ashlee Eiland 37. A Day Late and a Dollar Short by Terry McMillan 38. Kindred by Octavia E. Butler 39. Beloved by Toni Morrison 40. White Teeth by Zadie Smith 41. Discerning the Voice of God by Priscilla Shirer 42. Detours: The Unpredictable Path to Your Destiny by Tony Evans 43. Unashamed by Lecrae 44. Believe Bigger by Marshawn Evans Daniels ARTICLE + WEBSITES 1. Code Switch: Race in Your Face 2. White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh 3. NYTimes An Antiracist Reading List compiled by Ibram X. Kendi 4. Goodgooodgood.co Anti-racism resources compiled by Sarah Sophie Flicker and Alyssa Klein 5. Buzzfeed’s An Essential Reading Guide for Fighting Racism by Arianna Rebolini 6. 1619 Project (NY Times) – an article series on the history and legacy of slavery in America (also a podcast below). There is a book project in the works to expand on what they’ve started. 7. The America We Need (NY Times) – a NYT Opinion series that touches on justice in the midst of the pandemic. 8. “Walking While Black” by Garnette Cadogan WATCH: 1. Pastor Eric Mason: Don’t Lose Heart: Why It’s Worth It to Fight for Racial Harmony Even When We Don’t See Progress 2. Pastor Carl Lentz: I said, “Black Lives Matter” 3. Dr. Robin DiAngelo’s talk on White Fragility at the University of Washington 4. How to Deconstruct Racism One Headline at a Time, TEDtalk, Baratunde Thurston 5. How Racism Makes Us Sick, TEDtalk, David R. Williams 6. Racial Reconciliation, Latasha Morrison’s sermon, National Community Church 7. The Privilege Walk 8. Jon Tyson and David Bailey, class, race, reconciliation, and the Kingdom of God 9. Becoming Brave: Reconciliation Rooted in Prayer – “why do we need the church?” by Rev. Dr. Brenda Salter McNeil Movies to watch on Netflix: 1. 13th 2. American Son 3. Dear White People 4. See You Yesterday 5. When They See Us Movies to watch on Hulu: 1. If Beale Street Could Talk 2. The Hate U Give Movies to rent: 1. Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 2. Clemency 3. Fruitvale Station 4. I am Not Your Negro 5. Just Mercy 6. Selma 7. The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution 8. BlacKkKlansman 9. Burden 10. The Color of Fear Listen to these podcasts: 1. NPR’s Code Switch 2. Season 2 of In the Dark 3. Hope & Hard Pills with Andre Henry 4. Her with Amena Brown 5. Truth’s Table Podcast 6. Fights and Feelings with Joseph Solomon 7. Anti-Racism with Andre Henry on The Liturgists 8. Pod Save the People 9. 1619 Project Podcast 10. Scene on Radio’s “Seeing White” 11. Why Tho The Refined Collective episodes on race: 1. Anxiety, Race, and Healing Community with Nikia Phoenix 2. I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness with Austin Channing Brown 3. Why Being a ‘Good Person’ Prevents You From Being Better with Jeana Marinelli People to follow: 1. @austinchanning 2. @theconsciouskid 3. @blackcoffeewithwhitefriends 4. @theandrehenry 5. @colorofchange 6. @rachel.cargle 7. @ibramxk 8. @mspackyetti 9. @blklivesmatter 10. @osopepatrisse 11. @reformlajails 12. @akilahh 13. @showingupforracialjustice 14. @tyalexander 15. @tiffanybluhm 16. @natashaannmiller 17. @thefaithfeast 18. @louisa.wells 19. @abigaileernisse 20. @jessicamalatyrivera 21. @thegreatunlearn 22. @laylafsaad 23. @luvvie 24. @pastorgabbycwilkes 25. @elevateny 26. @pastoremase 27. @lecrae 28. @whatisjoedoing 29. @sarahjakesroberts 30. @bishopjakes 31. @devonfranklin 32. @iammiketodd 33. @amenabee 34. @shaunking You don’t have to read all 44 books in one day. You don’t have to start a non-profit. BUT YOU DO HAVE TO DO SOMETHING. I have not read every single one of these resources, but am making my way through them one by one. I am with you on the journey. What are you committed to? How are you going to ensure that you are no longer silent? It’s time for white people to do something. We are co-creators with God; it’s time to get to work.
Ready for your newly slimmed down show notes? (Don’t worry, the timestamps and links are STILL HERE): Meredith and Kaytee are discussing: Bookish Moments: a digital library challenge and an audiobook realization Current Reads: five-star books by black authors, suspense and MG winners Deep Dive: Buddy Reading Book Presses: a graphic novel for adults lands and as classic middle grade pick As per usual, time-stamped show notes are below with references to every book and resource we mentioned in this episode. If you’d like to listen first and not spoil the surprise, don’t scroll down! *Please note that all book titles linked above are Amazon affiliate links. Your cost is the same, but a small portion of your purchase will come back to us to help offset the costs of the show. Thanks for your support!* . . . . . Book of the Month: (These are Goodreads links, since we hope you’ll use our BOTM link to sign up if you’re interested!) 1:29 - Hour of the Assassin by Matthew Quirk 2:28 - The Two Lives of Lydia Bird by Josie Silver 2:32 - One Day in December by Josie Silver 2:42 - Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid 2:47 - Dark Matter by Blake Crouch Use our Link and the code CURRENTLYREADING to get your first book for just $9.99! Bookish Moments: 6:10 - The Dutch House by Ann Patchett 6:22 - Amazon Echo Dot (or Echo) to access Alexa for listening to audiobooks at home 7:05 - Audible try it out for free! Current Reads: 7:46 - The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré 11:11 - Mr. Gedrick and Me by Patrick Carman 11:18 - Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers 13:45 - Pride by Ibi Zoboi 13:48 - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 16:20 - The Blinds by Adam Sternbergh 17:55 - Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke 18:54 - The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson 21:11 - The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell Deep Dive - Buddy Reading: 27:28 - An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green 28:23 - We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates 30:48 - I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes 32:25 - The Stand by Stephen King 32:36 - The Outsider by Stephen King 35:27 - The Dream Daughter by Diane Chamberlain 36:08 - Still Life by Louise Penny 37:55 - Patreon will get you into our Buddy Read discussion on 4/19! Books We Want to Press Into Your Hands: 39:05 - March by John Lewis 40:50 - Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery 50:53 - Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher 42:31 - The Home Maker by Dorothy Canfield 42:57 - The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery 43:04 - Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Rod and Karen respond to listener feedback. Twitter: @rodimusprime @SayDatAgain @TBGWT Email: theblackguywhotips@gmail.com Blog: www.theblackguywhotips.com Voice Mail: 704-557-0186 This Is the Rope: A Story from the Great Migration by Jacqueline Woodson (Author), James Ransome (Illustrator) What Do You Do with a Voice Like That?: The Story of Extraordinary Congresswoman Barbara Jordan by Chris Barton (Author), Ekua Holmes (Illustrator) Young Gifted and Black: Meet 52 Black Heroes from Past and Present by Jamia Wilson (Author), Andrea Pippins (Illustrator) Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut (Denene Millner Books) by Derrick Barnes (Author), Gordon C. James (Illustrator) Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow (Scholastic Focus) by Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Author), Tonya Bolden (Author) Black History Month: Charlotte's vanishing historic sites, February 1, 2016: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article57611168.html Also mentioned on library show by Rod and Feedback show: But Some Of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's Studies by Akasha (Gloria T.) Hull (Editor), Patricia Bell-Scott (Editor), Barbara Smith (Editor) —this is an excellent book. Can't recommend it highly enough. We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching by Paula Giddings The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson Jazz by Toni Morrison
Our guest is Ta-Nehisi Coates. His debut novel, “The Water Dancer,” merges the slavery narrative with fantasy, and draws on themes, stories, and research from his past non-fiction, including from his books “Between the World and Me” and “We Were Eight Years in Power.” On October 14, 2019, Ta-Nehisi Coates came to the Sydney Goldstein Theater to talk with fellow writer Michael Chabon about craft, the role of the writer in public discourse, and much more.
Why write about slavery in 2019? And when you write about, how do you defy the popular conceptions about slavery that readers have in their heads? How do you make the subject new? It took Ta-Nehisi Coates – author of the bestselling nonfiction works The Beautiful Struggle, We Were Eight Years in Power, and Between The World And Me – ten years of writing and meticulous research to produce his first novel, The Water Dancer, and in that time, he unearthed some incredibly powerful answers to these questions. Dr. Charles Johnson, author of 24 books and winner of the 1990 National Book Award for his novel, Middle Passage, sat down with Coates in October 2019 to discuss The Water Dancer at Benaroya Hall. Already a NYT bestseller and Oprah's Book Club pick, his novel follows the life of Hiram Walker, born into slavery on a Virginia plantation. In the book, Harriet Tubman says of the Underground Railroad – “This is war. Soldiers fight in war for all kinds of reasons, but they die because they cannot bear to live in the world as it is.”
SPOILER ALERT. A number of critical plot points are exposed during the discussion. In conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer David Blight, author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom Ta-Nehisi Coates won the 2015 National Book Award for Between the World and Me, a ''searing meditation on what it means to be black in America today'' (New York Times). A national correspondent for the Atlantic, he won the 2014 George Polk Award for his cover story ''The Case for Reparations.'' Coates is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the author of We Were Eight Years in Power, a collection of new and previously published essays. His debut novel tells the story of an escaped enslaved person's journey from the barbaric Deep South to the misguided utopic movements of the North. (recorded 9/25/2019)
Ta-Nehisi Coates is the author of The Beautiful Struggle, We Were Eight Years in Power, and Between the World and Me. His new novel is The Water Dancer. Chris Jackson is Coates's editor, and the publisher and editor-in-chief of One World.
Ta-Nehisi Coates says we must love our country the way we love our friends — and not spare the hard truths. “Can you get to a place where citizens are encouraged to see themselves critically, where they’re encouraged to see their history critically?” he asks. Coates is a poetic journalist and a defining voice of our times. He’s with us in a conversation that is joyful, hard, kind, soaring, and down-to-earth all at once. He spoke with Krista as part of the 2017 Chicago Humanities Festival.Ta-Nehisi Coates is a distinguished writer in residence at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. His books include “Between the World and Me,” “We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy,” and the novel “The Water Dancer.” He’s also the current writer of the Marvel comics “The Black Panther” and “Captain America.”Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org. This episode originally aired in November 2017.
Ta-Nehisi Coates says we must love our country the way we love our friends — and not spare the hard truths. “Can you get to a place where citizens are encouraged to see themselves critically, where they’re encouraged to see their history critically?” he asks. Coates is a poetic journalist and a defining voice of our times. He’s with us in a conversation that is joyful, hard, kind, soaring, and down-to-earth all at once. He spoke with Krista as part of the 2017 Chicago Humanities Festival.Ta-Nehisi Coates is a distinguished writer in residence at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. His books include “Between the World and Me,” “We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy,” and the novel “The Water Dancer.” He’s also the current writer of the Marvel comics “The Black Panther” and “Captain America.”This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "Ta-Nehisi Coates — Imagining a New America." Find more at onbeing.org.This interview originally aired in November 2017.
The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker
Ta-Nehisi Coates reads his story from the June 10 & 17, 2019, issue of the magazine. Coates is the author of the nonfiction books "The Beautiful Struggle," "We Were Eight Years in Power," and "Between the World and Me," which won the National Book Award in 2015. His first novel, "The Water Dancer," from which this story is adapted, will be published in September.
The Law School Toolbox Podcast: Tools for Law Students from 1L to the Bar Exam, and Beyond
Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast! Today, we're kicking off a new series: The Law School Toolbox Book Club. This is a chance for us to chat with you about the books we're reading and why you might want to check them out. Today we're talking about Becoming, by Michelle Obama. In this episode we discuss: The new autobiography, Becoming, by Michelle Obama Some key takeaways about gender and race in the legal profession Embracing a growth mindset and asking for you want That even someone as accomplished as Michelle Obama can fail the bar! Resources: Becoming, by Michelle Obama (https://becomingmichelleobama.com/) We Were Eight Years in Power, by Ta-Nehisi Coates (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/550170/we-were-eight-years-in-power-by-ta-nehisi-coates/9780399590573/) The Final Year (https://www.finalyearfilm.com/) The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House, by Ben Rhodes (https://www.amazon.com/World-Memoir-Obama-White-House/dp/0525509356/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=_) Download the Transcript (https://lawschooltoolbox.com/episode-186-book-club-becoming-by-michelle-obama/) If you enjoy the podcast, we'd love a nice review and/or rating on Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/law-school-toolbox-podcast/id1027603976) or your favorite listening app. And feel free to reach out to us directly. You can always reach us via the contact form on the Law School Toolbox website (http://lawschooltoolbox.com/contact). If you're concerned about the bar exam, check out our sister site, the Bar Exam Toolbox (http://barexamtoolbox.com/). You can also sign up for our weekly podcast newsletter (https://lawschooltoolbox.com/get-law-school-podcast-updates/) to make sure you never miss an episode! Thanks for listening! Alison & Lee
American author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates discusses writing yourself into history, making courageous art, Obama and We Were Eight Years in Power, Black Panther and Captain America, and the cultural, social and political issues surrounding race in the US today. Recorded live at Melbourne Writers Festival 2018, with Santilla Chingaipe.
For our special extended Black Panther episode Nicole and Stacy switch off hosting the discussion with Sarí and Christopher. We discuss the merits of Chadwick Boseman, the power of Disney and representation, the badassery of the women in the movie, tradition and family, growing up black in America, and the historical Black Panthers. Check out the Rita Moreno interview that talks about the importance of properly filming a dance scene (or an action sequence!) and director Ryan Coogler describing how he filmed the action sequence in the Korean club. Read the case for Black Panther being required viewing for white people, but maybe don't see Wolf Warrior. Christopher recommends reading the newest Black Panther comics by Ta-Nehisi Coates and also his book, We Were Eight Years in Power. Sarí recommends Chris Rock's newest special, Tambourine, and Nicole recommends Moonlight. Check out our website where you can sign up for our newsletter and visit our store, talk to us on Twitter, visit our Facebook Page, and please leave a review for us on iTunes.
In this episode of Redlining & White Noise, we get to the topic of Redlining. Charles Rotramel and Gregg Taylor meet with Preston Allen, Director for Community Development at Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church, located in the Third Ward of Houston. We talk about what redlining is and--beginning in the early part of the 20th Century--how the U.S. government, through redlining policy, intentionally and systematically segregated African American neighborhoods to limit wealth-building opportunities. We also discuss the current ramifications of the federal government's complicity in this institutional practice of racialized otherization and stripping of wealth. Rev. Preston Allen is Director for Non-Profits and Community Development at Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church in Houston's Third Ward. He is a leader in criminal justice reform efforts. For further reading: Resource articles about the history and practice of redlining: A Forgotten History of How the U.S. Government Segregated America Redlining's Enduring Legacy We reference Ta-Nehisi Coates' book, We Were Eight Years in Power, particularly chapter six, “The Case for Reparations.” You can find his book here.
We discuss our philosophy around fitness, what we like to do for exercise, how we incorporate movement in our families, and what we do to get back on track when we're in a slump. Last year we talked about our participation in organized activities and sports, so if you'd like to hear more about that you can listen here.Yoga with AdrieneMr. Money Mustache on biking in the coldLife latelyAbby met her new niece on a recent trip to Portland.Sarah is looking for listener tips on how to make the walk home from school more fun.Reading latelyAbby read Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper, and while she found value there she is also realizing that she may need to take a break from fiction for younger readers.Sarah finished We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates. If you aren't ready to commit to the whole book, she recommends reading The Case for Reparations.Eating latelySarah's been instituting casual dinners when Neil is working late--snacky food, fewer rules.Abby made an udon noodle soup that was okay, but what she really wants is an easy-to-make yet amazingly delicious ramen recipe. If listeners know of such a thing, please share!If you'd like to join in the conversation, please comment on our shownotes, email us at friendlierpodcast@gmail.com, or find us on Instagram @friendlierpodcast. Thanks for listening! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Audiobooks, capital, banks, slavery, regulation, choice, racism, and the racial wealth gap. Mehrsa Baradaran joins the show for the fourth time to talk about her latest book. Recorded in front of a live audience at the University of Georgia School of Law. This show’s links: Mehrsa Baradaran’s faculty profile (http://www.law.uga.edu/profile/mehrsa-baradaran) and academic writing (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1178148) Mehrsa Baradaran, The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap (https://www.amazon.com/Color-Money-Black-Racial-Wealth/dp/0674970950) Barack Obama, The President's Role in Advancing Criminal Justice Reform (http://harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/811-866-Online-Rev-vf.pdf) Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy (https://www.amazon.com/We-Were-Eight-Years-Power/dp/0399590560) Eric Foner, Reconstruction Updated Edition: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 (https://www.amazon.com/Reconstruction-Updated-Unfinished-Revolution-1863-1877/dp/0062354515) (see also Eric Foner, Why Reconstruction Matters (https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/29/opinion/sunday/why-reconstruction-matters.html) (a brief but informative opinion essay)) Oral Argument 76: Brutality (http://oralargument.org/76) (guest Al Brophy) Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir, Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much (https://scholar.harvard.edu/sendhil/scarcity) Mehrsa Baradaran, How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy (https://www.amazon.com/How-Other-Half-Banks-Exploitation/dp/B01MQZYGE8/) Alfred Brophy, Reparations: Pro and Con (https://www.amazon.com/Reparations-Pro-Alfred-L-Brophy/dp/0195304071/) William Darity, Jr. and Dania Frank, The Economics of Reparations (http://www.jstor.org/stable/3132248) Jamelle Bouie and Rebecca Onion, Reconstruction (http://www.slate.com/articles/slate_plus/reconstruction.html) (a podcast from Slate) Special Guest: Mehrsa Baradaran.
Well, I was talking about the crisis of black elite leadership. When it comes to black leaders, if the model is to be successful but not publicly attack white supremacy — well, then that’s really about success to fit in. Fitting in, in a neoliberal world, is to be well adjusted to injustice. I’ll give you an example: Dear brother Ta-Nehisi Coates has just come out with a new book.Yes. “We Were Eight Years in Power.” Who’s the “we”? When’s the last time he’s been through the ghetto, in the hoods, to the schools and indecent housing and mass unemployment? We were in power for eight years? My God. Maybe he and some of his friends might have been in power, but not poor working people.Dr Cornel West “The symbolic power of Barack Obama’s presidency – that whiteness was no longer strong enough to prevent peons taking up residence in the castle – assaulted the most deeply rooted notions of white supremacy and instilled fear in its adherents and beneficiaries,And it was that fear that gave the symbols Donald Trump deployed – the symbols of racism – enough potency to make him president, and thus put him in position to injure the world.Throughout his eight years in office, Barack Obama endured a campaign of illegitimacy waged either by pluralities or majorities of the Republican party. Donald Trump rooted his candidacy in that campaign. It’s fairly obvious." Ta-Nehisi Coates
December 13, 2017 Discussion on the book "We Were Eight Years in Power," calls from listeners by Dr. Farid Holakouee
Charles, Matt, and Gregg look at the year of 2017 and try to find hope in the dark places. What results is a crucial discussion about race, social justice, God, and where we locate ourselves. Ta-Nehisi Coates' new book "We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy" is discussed in this episode and can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/We-Were-Eight-Years-Power-ebook/dp/B01MT734OD/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1512720467&sr=1-1
Dr. E. Michael Jones, editor of Culture Wars magazine, recently reviewed the new book by Ta-Nehisi Coates, "We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy." He connects some of the ideas he sees in this book with the sex scandals hitting Hollywood and the media. The themes are fatherlessness and loss of control of the sexual passions. Ta-Nehisi became the editor of the famous abolitionist magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, at the beginning of the Obama presidency. Like President Obama he loved hip hop music and the world view it brought with it. Like Frederick Douglas he became an atheist and lived in sexual immorality. But the big theme is men being enslaved to the sin of womanizing. This sin is a destructive slavery especially because it creates fatherlessness, which then produces sons enslaved again to womanizing. Dr. Jones argues that Ta-Nehisi shares in the "generational shame" because of the guilt of his and his father's sins. But instead of coming to Christ and seeking forgiveness and conversion he becomes an atheist and scapegoats all this guilt onto the "whites" Part of his theme is that the Jewish controlled Hollywood and media have been "social engineering" this agenda for about 70 years. It has been overturning our Christian heritage but now with Matt Lauer and others getting conquered by the same uncontrolled sexual passion their own empire is starting to sing to the tune of "It's the End of the World as We Know It." Dr, Jones asserts that "the most effective propaganda ministry in the history of the world collapsed under a barrage of sexual harassment claims.”
Season Greetings, folks! Listen to the latest chapter in the never-ending blerd podcast saga known as The Mid Week in Review-engineered by Afronerd Radio and airing this Wednesday at 7pm ET. Join Dburt, Daryll B. and Capt. Kirk as they unravel this unravel this (mid) week's latest issues: Dburt, after viewing more episodes of the Spike Lee-Netflix She's Gotta Have It reboot has revised impressions; our quick thoughts about Trump's (perhaps) sole and highly debatable legislative "accomplishment"-the GOP tax plan; it appears that famed iconoclastic director, Quention Tarantino might be directing the next Star Trek film. How (or if) does that affect/connect to Star Trek: Discovery?; Milestone Media received it's long overdue "close-up" courtesy of Robert Kirkman/AMC's Secret History of Comics docuseries; more on Blavity's recent AfroTech summit; the Disney-Fox deal may be wrapping up by next week!; just what is all the hullabaloo over the last issue of Black Panther and why do some readers want Ta-Nehesi Coates off the series? Who is Joyner Lucas and why has his "I'm Not Racist" video gone viral? And lastly, speaking of author, Ta-Nehisi Coates, why did noted intellectual and educator, Dr. Cornel West thow barbs at him concerning his new book, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy. Call the show LIVE at 646-915-9620.
Season Greetings, folks! Listen to the latest chapter in the never-ending blerd podcast saga known as The Mid Week in Review-engineered by Afronerd Radio and airing this Wednesday at 7pm ET. Join Dburt, Daryll B. and Capt. Kirk as they unravel this unravel this (mid) week's latest issues: Dburt, after viewing more episodes of the Spike Lee-Netflix She's Gotta Have It reboot has revised impressions; our quick thoughts about Trump's (perhaps) sole and highly debatable legislative "accomplishment"-the GOP tax plan; it appears that famed iconoclastic director, Quention Tarantino might be directing the next Star Trek film. How (or if) does that affect/connect to Star Trek: Discovery?; Milestone Media received it's long overdue "close-up" courtesy of Robert Kirkman/AMC's Secret History of Comics docuseries; more on Blavity's recent AfroTech summit; the Disney-Fox deal may be wrapping up by next week!; just what is all the hullabaloo over the last issue of Black Panther and why do some readers want Ta-Nehesi Coates off the series? Who is Joyner Lucas and why has his "I'm Not Racist" video gone viral? And lastly, speaking of author, Ta-Nehisi Coates, why did noted intellectual and educator, Dr. Cornel West thow barbs at him concerning his new book, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy. Call the show LIVE at 646-915-9620.
The College Essay Guy Podcast: A Practical Guide to College Admissions
On this episode Jeff and I discuss this rad resource on which schools are most generous with financial aid and after he shares with us his story, we discuss: Three huge myths that students and parents have about financially planning for college Why parents should ignore the school's sticker price Which schools meet 100% of demonstrated need (and what that means) A tool for figuring out how much money schools offer What Jeff believes is the biggest problem with the financial aid process Why Jeff created this resource in the first place and, most importantly… How to use this tool (along with a few other resources) to decide where to attend Links: Jeffy Levy's website The excel sheet of universities sorted by financial aid generosity (domestic students) How to sort an excel sheet by column Common Data Set Podcast Episode 108: Demonstrated Interest: How to Build Authentic Relationships with Colleges (and Why It's a Good Idea) FAFSA Forecaster College Board Net Price Calculator CollegeData.org We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Tyler and Jemar discuss a portion of, “We Were Eight Years in Power”, the latest book by the award-winning writer for the Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates. They explore the author’s explanation for being an atheist and respond from a black and Christian perspective. Learn more how you can get social and support the show at PassTheMicPodcast.com Episode 175 Original Airdate: Oct 16 2017 Support this podcast on patreon at www.patreon.com/PassTheMic Hosts: Jemar Tisby (twitter.com/JemarTisby) Tyler Burns (twitter.com/Burns23) Producer: Beau York (twitter.com/TheRealBeauYork) Lean More: Pass The Mic - www.PassTheMicPodcast.com (twitter.com/_PassTheMic) RAAN - www.RAANetwork.org (twitter.com/RAANetwork) Special Thanks To: Podastery - www.podastery.com (twitter.com/Podastery)
Ta-Nehisi Coates - The Boondocks - le Roi Lion Si un noir peut devenir président, n'importe quel blanc peut devenir président Cette semaine, Le Tchip parle politique et "pouvoir noir". Avec nos impressions sur le dernier livre du journaliste afro-américain Ta-Nehisi Coates, "We Were Eight Years in Power", qui revient sur les années Obama (14'05). Puis François nous parle de la série animée "The Boondocks", bijou pop et satirique adapté du comics à succès du dessinateur Aaron McGruder (31'55). Également au menu : le coup de pied de Patrice Evra, la prochaine adaptation du Roi Lion avec Beyoncé et Donald Glover, le dernier film d'Omar Sy "Knock", un docu sur Chris Brown... Enjoy !Le Tchip sur Twitter : @letchippodcast, @franzoul et @kvdonat Enregistrement : 6 novembre 17 - Réalisation : Samuel Hirsch - Chroniqueurs : Mélanie Wanga, François Oulac, Kévi Donat
“It’s important to remember the inconsequence of one’s talent and hard work and the incredible and unmatched sway of luck and fate,” writes Ta-Nehisi Coates in his new book, We Were Eight Years in Power. Coates’s view of his career flows from his view of human events: contingent, unguided, and devoid of higher morality or cosmic justice. He is not here to comfort you. He is not here to comfort himself. "Nothing in the record of human history argues for a divine morality, and a great deal argues against it," he writes. "What we know is that good people very often suffer terribly, while the perpetrators of horrific evil backstroke through all the pleasures of the world." It’s this worldview that makes conversations with Coates so bracing. His philosophy leaves room for chaos, for disorder, for things to go terribly wrong and stay that way. In this discussion, I asked him what would make him hopeful, what it would mean for America to live up to its ideals. Closing the 20-to-1 white-black wealth gap, he replied. But what would that take, he asked? “Maybe something so large that you find yourself in a country that's not even America anymore.” Maybe, he mused, it’s something that he couldn’t even support. "It's very easy for me to see myself being contemporary with processes that might make for an equal world, more equality, and maybe the complete abolition of race as a construct, and being horrified by the process, maybe even attacking the process. I think these things don't tend to happen peacefully." This is a discussion about race, about luck, about history, about politics, but above all, about how the stories we tell ourselves are often designed to carry comfort rather than truth. "For me, my part in this struggle, my part to make a better world, is not simply to have people pick up my work and say, 'Well, all the facts seem correct. I think this is right,' and, then move on with their lives," says Coates. "My job is to bring across the emotion, to make them feel a certain way, to haunt them, to make it hard to sleep." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In his new book, We Were Eight Years in Power, The Atlantic's national correspondent Ta-Nehisi Coates writes about the past eight years of his career—his pursuit of an understanding of America, and his route to becoming a celebrated author. In this episode of Radio Atlantic, our cohosts Matt, Jeff, and Alex each conduct an interview with Ta-Nehisi about what he's found. This is a longer episode than our usual, so if you'd like to skip around, here are the three segments, for easy fast-forwarding: [00:00] Matt's interview, focused on the questions that infused Ta-Nehisi's early writing at The Atlantic, and the answers that he's found [32:46] Jeff's interview, focused on the two administrations Ta-Nehisi has chronicled, and his political outlook [59:52] Alex's interview, focused on Ta-Nehisi's community, family, and life Links: - The Mis-Education of the Negro(Carter G. Woodson, 1933) - “Black People, Culture and Poverty” (Ta-Nehisi Coates, 2009) - "The Math on Black Out-of-Wedlock Births" (Ta-Nehisi Coates, 2009) - “The Radical Critique of Obama” (Ta-Nehisi Coates, 2009) - “On Jewish Racism” (Ta-Nehisi Coates, 2009) - “Still More…” (Ta-Nehisi Coates, 2009) - “Why Do So Few Blacks Study the Civil War?” (Ta-Nehisi Coates, 2012) - "The End of White America?" (Hua Hsu, 2009) - "The Issues: Race" (Hua Hsu & Ta-Nehisi Coates, 2009) - “A Plea for Straight Talk Between the Races” (Benjamin Mays, 1960) - "The First White President" (Ta-Nehisi Coates, 2017) - "This Is What European Diplomats Really Think About Donald Trump" (Alberto Nardelli, Buzzfeed, 2017) - "Donald Trump's Race Wars" (Jonathan Chait, 2017) - "Tyranny of the Minority" (Michelle Goldberg, 2017) - Elizabeth Kolbert's author archive (The New Yorker) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Her Body and Other Parties, We Were Eight Years in Power, Manhattan Beach, and more books. This episode was sponsored by Lighter Than My Shadow and 27 Hours. Find a list of the titles discussed on this episode in the shownotes.
Las Vegas becomes the site of the worst mass shooting in American history, Trump attacks hurricane victims in Puerto Rico, and Tom Price’s flights of fancy come to an end. Then Ta-Nehisi Coates joins Jon, Jon, and Tommy to talk about his new book, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy.
Amanda and Jenn discuss creepy reads, social justice ammunition, witchy reads, and more in this week's episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Girls Made of Glass and Snow by Melissa Bashardoust, Lit Chat from Book Riot and Abrams Noterie, and Brain Rules for Aging Well by John Medina. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts here. The show can also be found on Stitcher here. Questions 1. Hi, I'm getting married in November after a short engagement but I've already noticed that my fiancé and my mutual male friends have seemingly gone from referring to me by my name to calling me 'his bird' or 'his woman' (f* that s*). Any recommendations on books about maintaining your identity as a real human being after marriage? As a wise woman told me recently, "the only downside to getting married is that you become someone's wife". Cheers! --Nia 2. Hi Amanda and Jenn! I have a travel request. I'm going to Valencia, Spain this fall to visit a friend, and know very little about the region. My favorite way to get to know a new city is through historical fiction. Do you have any recommendations of historical fiction set in or near Valencia? --Ellen 3. I am in the process of ending a relationship of almost twenty years and I am trying to adjust to the idea of living on my own for the first time since my early twenties (I just turned 40). I am looking for books that might help me sort out my feelings about this process. Fiction or non-fiction is fine. I already have All Grown Up by Jami Attenberg on my TBR pile. I don't have kids and don't want them but stories that include kids are okay as long as the main focus is on the the adult. Thanks in advance. --Rachel 4. Hi ladies! We are looking for book recommendations for our co-worker and friend Emily. Her birthday is on October 11th and she is a huge fan of your show (she is the one who introduced each of us to it as well) and of all things books. She loves to read pretty much everything and anything. We would like to get her a book or two for her birthday and would love some recommendations. She really enjoys horror, true crime, mystery, and literary classics. Some books she has recently read and enjoyed are Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty, Insomnia by Stephen King, and The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls. (The three of us are planning on reading Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt per your recommendation from a previous episode, and are very excited by the way). Anything you could recommend would be great! Thanks in advance for your help! --Mallory and Jessica 5. Hey, Initially, I was asking for more books on race by #ownvoices because it's coming up in my classes so often, which are predominately white (and I am as well). What I'm now looking for is maybe some kind of history, memoir/biography, sociological study, really anything, that would be helpful in verbal combat with someone who is essentially the devil's advocate in a comment section, but believes in what he's saying. I know I won't change his mind but I'd like to have history and facts under my belt to help verbally kick his ass and destroy him. This MRA-dude, in a previous class, considered Janie sticking up for herself in Their Eyes Were Watching God 'terribly emasculating' for her husband and an awful thing to do to him. He is also *so sad* by our professor criticizing our country and most of our class agreeing with her (because apparently that's worse than Nazis - I made the mistake of creeping him on Facebook.) I own (but still need to read) They Can't Kill Us All, Rest in Power, and Warriors Don't Cry. I have read 12 Years a Slave, March Trilogy, Between the World and Me, and am anticipating We Were Eight Years in Power. I was originally thinking more along the lines of slavery and civil rights narratives, but now I think a better tactic would be to learn about the history of fascism and the constant fight for social justice. Any help is much appreciated, especially since he's not *technically* a Nazi and I can't just punch him during class. I love the show and have almost made my way through the all of the episodes! --Jane 6. This is a bit of a time sensitive request...One of my best friends has been married just over a year, and has recently found out that her husband wants a divorce. I really want to send her a book to help distract her... Any recommendations? She likes thrillers and YA fantasy. Bonus points if there's a strong feminist and/ or life will go on message. --Tina 7. I'm looking for some good Witch/female awesome themed books to get in the mood for fall and Halloween. I loved "The Discovery of Witches," "Daughter of Smoke and Bone" and "The Night Circus." I'd prefer something in the fantasy realm but am really open to anything I can drink with some hot apple cider! Thank you! --Radhika Books Discussed Furthermore by Tahereh Mafi Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit When Women Were Birds by Terry Tempest Williams The Perfume Garden by Kate Lord Brown The Poem of The Cid by Anonymous Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle Melton Single Carefree Mellow by Katherine Heiny Sing Unburied Sing by Jesmyn Ward Blood of the Dawn by Claudia Salazar Jiménez The Moth Diaries by Rachel Klein Fen by Daisy Johnson White Rage by Carol Anderson The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander Gather the Daughters by Jennie Melamed (trigger warning for everything, basically) The Djinn Falls in Love, edited by Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin Brimstone by Cherie Priest Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
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