Here are some recommended books, articles, shows, movies and podcasts.
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Podcasts
“The Daily” New York Times daily podcast (topic: current events)
“Ultra” a limited podcast series by Rachel Maddow (topic: sedition during WW2)
“Harvard Thinking,” where the life of the mind meets everyday life by Harvard University
TV Shows & Series
“The US and the Holocaust” a Ken Burns documentary about the US policies and sentiment during WW2 (topic: immigration, racial justice, channel: PBS)
“Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet” a show about nine planetary boundaries we must consider when trying to save the planet. (topic: climate change, channel: Netflix)
Movies
“Suppressed” documentary on the Fight to Vote (topic: election integrity, channel: YouTube)
“Kiss the Ground” a Cure for Climate Change (topic: climate change, channel: Netflix)
“The Janes” the story of an underground service for abortions before they were legal (topic: abortion, channel: HBO)
Daily articles
Heather Cox Richardson - Letters from an American (topic: current events, politics and history)
Joyce Vance - Civil Discourse (topic: politics)
“The Hopium Chronicles” - a daily newsletter by Simon Rosenberg (topic: hope and optimism while fighting MAGA)
Books
“Democracy Awakening” by Heather Cox Richardson
“How Democracies Die” by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
“Laboratories of Autocracy” by David Pepper about how statehouses across the country pose the greatest dangers to American democracy
“Activism for Introverts: 9 Simple Ways Anyone Can Change the World” by L. Shay Bradham
“The Hill We Climb” poetry by Amanda Gorman
In recent years there have been record-shattering numbers of book challenges in public and school libraries. Many of the titles being targeted are written for young people and feature LGBTQ+ voices and people of color.
Resist book bans where you find them, and read and make those books available when you can.
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