The Non-fiction Feature: The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
The Poetry Spot: The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, editor Arnold Rampersad
The Product Spot: PBS – Slavery by Another Name (film)
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PBS – Slavery by Another Name (film)
A film about why black Southerners sought to leave, the North’s role in the migration, and the factors that led to the migration.
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
A compilation of poems by one of this country’s most esteemed poets, who lived during the Great Migration.
The Warmth of Other Suns
The incredible mass movement of millions of blacks forging a path north in the early 1900s.
Pithy Summary – Bulletin #43
The Non-fiction Feature: Disunited Nations by Peter Zeihan
The Fiction Spot: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Product Spot: Foreign Affairs (magazine/website)
Disunited Nations: The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World
How U.S. foreign affairs shaped the world with the Order, and a view of what’s to come.
Things Fall Apart
The archetypal modern African novel that contrasts life in precolonial Africa with the colonialism that followed.
Foreign Affairs (magazine/website)
Via essays, reports, books, a podcast, and more, Foreign Affairs is incredibly useful as a high-level, thorough, substantive, and intelligent take on how the U.S. impacts the world today.
News Literacy Project
The News Literacy Project provides resources for the general public and educators to help them learn how to identify credible information.
Me and The Times
“Me and The Times” by former New York Times editor Robert Stock is a remarkable memoir of his early life and his career.