Black History Month: Recs and reqs
the true crime that's worth your time
Black History Month gets underway today, and you know what that means. Thought-provoking discussion and reading/viewing, yes…but also cringey leveraging of the event for 15%-off sales and tokenized surfacing of content. I have an absolute horror of even finding myself adjacent to the latter thing, to the point where I considered not even doing this thread.
But I also want to find out and share more — more books, more longform writing that reframes major cases, more true-crime commentary from Black voices. Ideally I/we do this year-round and not just in the year’s shortest month, obvs, but today let’s work where we are. What true-crime properties do you recommend for Black History Month?
And what areas/cases do you want some recommendations in for yourself? — SDB