Black History Month Pt. II
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.
