The Last Time Democracy Almost Died, by Jill Lepore
"It’s a paradox of democracy that the best way to defend it is to attack it, to ask more of it, by way of criticism, protest, and dissent."
Chris Hedges with Gerald Horne: Origins of White Supremacy
Chronicles how American culture - deeply rooted in white supremacy, slavery and capitalism - finds its origin story in the 17th century European colonization of Africa and North America, exposing the structural origins of American "looting." (Amazon)
Chris Hedges on his latest book, “America: The Farewell Tour”
Hedges: "I have children. I'm terrified."
Cornel West: The Fire of a New Generation
West: ...we’re trying to sustain hope by being a hope. Hope is not simply something that you have; hope is something that you are. So, when Curtis Mayfield says “keep on pushing,” that’s not an abstract conception about optimism in the world. That is an imperative to be a hope for others in the way Christians in the past used to be a blessing — not the idea of praying for a blessings, but being a blessing.
Americans Who Tell the Truth: W.E.B. DuBois
W.E.B. DuBOIS Writer, Teacher, Civil Rights Spokesman: 1868 - 1963 "Back of the problem of race and color lies a greater problem and that is the fact that so many civilized person's are willing to live in comfort even if the price of this is poverty, ignorance, and disease of the majority of their fellowmen, More