Black History Month Pt. II

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This week, Alice and Kim discuss contemporary reads for Black History Month, an accidental con artist, and all new books to watch out for. This episode is sponsored by Audible and The Night Tiger from Flatiron Books, Book Riot’s Swords and Spaceships newsletter. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. Follow Up True story podcast, The Dropout from ABC Radio, about Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes New Books The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America, ed. by Nikesh Shukla and Chimene Suleyman Parkland by Dave Cullen Brown, White, Black: An American Family at the Intersection of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Religion by Nishta J. Mehra Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval by Saidiya Hartman Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir by Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman Black History Month II: Contemporary Voices When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele We Can’t Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival by Jabari Asim The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race, edited by Jesmyn Ward The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael W. Twitty The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves by Glory Edim Reading Now First Generations: Women in Colonial America by Carol Berkin Atomic Habits by James Clear CONCLUSION Find us on Twitter @itsalicetime and @kimthedork. RATE AND REVIEW on ITUNES so people can find us more easily, and subscribe so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out.