Enslaved Black Children Were Educated Here. Now the Public Can Learn the History.

Beginning on Juneteenth, a restored Virginia schoolhouse where enslaved and free Black students were taught to read is on view in Colonial Williamsburg.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/us/bray-school-virginia-juneteenth.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

 

MICHELLE GOLDBERG

Trump Has Reawakened the Resistance

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/opinion/trump-has-reawakened-the-resistance.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

 

Hitting the Streets With ‘No Kings Day’ Protesters

New Yorkers gathered in the rain to march, dance, and let Trump know ‘nobody likes him.’ (New York Magazine)

https://www.thecut.com/article/photos-no-kings-day-protest-new-york-city.html

 

Gov. Josh Shapiro on antisemitism and Trump’s ‘sanctimonious B.S.’ (Washington Post) 

https://youtu.be/7hR7FJj0vZw?si=9jIXHIgiOp62_s6C

Twelve of Brian Wilson’s greatest songs – from surf to psychedelia and beyond

Elaborating classic pop and doo-wop into divinely beautiful and inimitable hitmaking, these are some of the late musician’s most unmistakable masterpieces

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jun/11/brian-wilson-greatest-songs

 

‘It’s so important to read widely’ | 8 writers share their advice

https://youtu.be/wkeXR-IIPpw?si=3TqxNadUgXGxc4o_

 EVERY MORNING 7:00-10:00. C-SPAN. 

‘A reflection of who she was’: major Diane Arbus exhibition hits New York

An expansive survey of the photographer’s work lands at the Park Avenue Armory, offering an unusually assembled look at her defining images https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/jun/03/diane-arbus-exhibition-new-york

 TWO BOOKS I GOT TODAY.

Kennedy Center sees ticket sales fall dramatically amid Trump intervention

Donald Trump appointed himself chair of the performance center in February, leading to boycotts and cancellations (The Guardian)

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/03/kennedy-center-sales-trump

 

Trump’s Playbook to Cripple “60 Minutes” and the Press

The veteran journalist Lesley Stahl on the pressures at CBS News, the history of Presidential attacks on the news media, and how journalists today should respond.(The New Yorker)

By David Remnick

https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/lesley-stahl-on-what-a-settlement-with-donald-trump-would-mean-for-cbs-news

On Grief, Awe and Being Alive | The Ezra Klein Show

https://youtu.be/kjqJjdvNTEs?si=f9S2m6A9HU730Mev

Post-WWII Germany’s first Jewish cabinet member on finding her ‘political voice,’ facing the past (CBS News)

https://youtu.be/t25uPP4dPP4?si=H7uLWbeLFZSpygIS

 

‘One Last Time’—Hamilton at the White House

https://youtu.be/uV4UpCq2azs?si=xQII33Y8JMTdJgTA

New book ‘The Afterlife of Malcolm X’ examines his lasting impact on civil rights (PBS)

https://youtu.be/l94dSAcva90?si=R_QCUN6bsx0fp8CH

 

A Long Talk With Mark Cuban

 

The voluble billionaire discusses his mission to transform health care, why Kamala lost, Bluesky’s woes, and more.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/mark-cuban-health-care-ai-crypto.html

Indivisible: the mass movement leading the progressive fight against Trump

It grew out of a Google Doc, and now has millions of US members – what’s the secret of Indivisible’s success

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/25/indivisible-donald-trump-progressive-movement

 

Source Booksellers - 2025 Publishers Weekly Bookstore of the Year

Source Booksellers owner Janet Webster Jones discussed the independent bookstore she founded in Detroit's Midtown district in 2002 and what she's learned over more than two decades in the bookselling business. Source Booksellers was named the 2025 Bookstore of the Year by Publishers Weekly.

https://www.c-span.org/program/book-tv/source-booksellers-2025-publishers-weekly-bookstore-of-the-year/659675

ONE YOUNG WOMAN puts her hand to her heart every time she walks by the sign. I go downtown with it every weekday morning. 

Sabrina Ionescu on WNBA Superteams and the New York Liberty’s Championship Season. With Sue Bird.

https://youtu.be/OZahvY_kn-4?si=0UPT3i-OE9_Y17kG

 

Ocean Vuong: ‘The Emperor of Gladness’ on Oprah 

https://youtu.be/CghReJZYQ2k?si=gQLqcro3Iv-djufW

A Conversation About the American Revolution with Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and Rick Atkinson (WGBH Boston)

https://youtu.be/jCPKP-zRRHY?si=rkiDH5-BL6B709s_

 

George Saunders: Shame on the White House

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/opinion/trump-firing-hayden.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

How a Red-District Democrat is Navigating Trump. The Ezra Klein Show (NYT)

https://youtu.be/LpGhXKf3-qo?si=19nL7p79V5k1hw0K

 

I was Hitler’s neighbor: ‘If he’d known we were Jewish, we’d have been sent to Dachau’(the Guardian)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/10/i-was-hitlers-neighbour-if-hed-known-we-were-jewish-wed-have-been-sent-to-dachau

In my Catholic grade school across the street from our house, in the two-week summer camp run by the Diocese, in four years in a Jesuit boarding school, in four years at Notre Dame, in 6 years of teaching in Catholic schools, I don’t remember an iota of progressive thinking. While people are falling out over the Pope dying and the new Pope, Trump got around 58% of the Catholic vote. 

 

Fired Librarian of Congress on losing history during Trump 2.0

https://youtu.be/0GEIXkofoSc?si=r5huv5Zo23RxuNXd

 The Met. I walked by the day after.

 

Bill Gates on why he’s donating his remaining wealth and his concerns about U.S. aid cuts (PBS)

https://youtu.be/R20EPJpIKrA?si=nZ2yhaSSCU1pD0AY

 

The Promise of New York

Other cities have better infrastructure, fewer rats, cleaner streets, plentiful public toilets, more elbow room. Yet people continue to flock here.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/05/12/the-promise-of-new-york

How the Public Library became an American Civic Institution | Full Documentary | PBS

https://youtu.be/w7tRNkiLz9A?si=nY6Uov5m5bhM6Dc-

Columbia University’s Jelani Cobb on why journalism matters now (WGBH)

https://youtu.be/EO1jcQoPlh0?si=636fncTZ_-0q4KzX

 

‘It puts the ‘us’ in the US’: Ken Burns on the value of public broadcasting (CNN)

https://youtu.be/ViLDu95NfG0?si=GWNnxGWz9rYTIw1r

 

Trump’s War on Liberal Academia? | Michael Roth & Preet Bharara

https://youtu.be/F6Y3-oAo24c?si=4Jyf0FviPL_5EJlh

A STORE just to the right a few storefronts from the big Barnes and Noble on Union Square. Big space, lots of horse images. I just took this photo as I walked by. I’ll go back. 

 

 

AFT’s Randi Weingarten on Trump Cuts, DEI. (NYT)

https://youtu.be/5-Ujpt2GUss?si=LCKd-VO-w6K8ifYA

 

 

Trump’s One Hundred Days of Ineptitude

Now we know that Donald Trump’s first term, his initial attempt at authoritarian primacy, was amateur hour, a fitful rehearsal. (The New Yorker)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/05/05/a-hundred-days-of-ineptitude

 BOB DYLAN. 1963. North Country Blues.

https://youtu.be/npsB1xWh5hA?si=BWxiQ3M9a2dbjD_h

 Just Got This Yesterday.

 

THE VERY AMERICAN ROOTS OF TRUMPISM. The Ezra Klein Show. NYT.

https://youtu.be/82tk31IHnoY?si=GtTWCTYnN9bmw68W

A GUY ON THE TRAIN THIS MORNING on my way back from holding the sign.

IRENE WEISS: The Soul Never Forgets. A Holocaust memory

 https://youtu.be/1dZ5GOVkLHQ?si=Oh4sMUGXwMLDQpYl.  

‘WASHINGTON JOURNAL’ seven mornings a week, 7:00-10:00. C-SPAN. 

 

‘Zohran Mamdani represents the future New York’: socialist riding high in bid to be mayor

The progressive democrat from Queens is the son of a famous film-maker and poised to take on front-runner Andrew Cuomo

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/19/zohran-mamdani-andrew-cuomo-new-york-city-mayor

 

SIMON SCHAMA Uncovers New Histories in ‘The Holocaust, 80 Years On’ (Amanpour and Company)

https://youtu.be/DTsGT94RqD4?si=4xxkKF6mqO921SZ6

 

Novelist Katie Kitamura: ‘As Trump tries to take away everything I love, it’s never been clearer that writing matters’

Sophie McBain

The Japanese-American author of unsettling new novel Audition talks about why fiction isn’t frivolous, family life with fellow writer Hari Kunzru, and how US authors are facing a critical moment

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/12/novelist-katie-kitamura-as-trump-tries-to-take-away-everything-i-love-its-never-been-clearer-that-writing-matters