What to Watch, Read, and Listen To Today
Three Atlantic writers and editors share their Juneteenth recommendations.
Vann R. Newkirk II
Vann R. Newkirk II is a senior editor at The Atlantic and the host of the podcasts Floodlines and Holy Week.
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Lisa Lake / Getty What America Owes the Planet
Climate reparations would hold the globe’s biggest polluters—including the United States—responsible for their actions. They might also be the best hope those nations have for saving themselves.
Illustration by Adam Maida The Black-History Books Teachers Hope Won’t Be Banned
When the tools for educating young people are restricted
Diana Ejaita for The Atlantic The Legacy of Charles V. Hamilton and Black Power
A tribute to a true theorist of democracy
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Associated Press. Revisiting America’s Most Radical Experiment
The Reconstruction era is not just a distant, bygone time. It’s also a living history.
Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. Lost Photographs of Black America
A trove of images from the 1960s and ’70s, discovered in a Swedish bank vault, offers new perspectives on the past—and the present.
Ernest Cole, Untitled, 1967–72, from "Ernest Cole: The True America" (Aperture, 2024). © 2024 Ernest Cole Family Trust. What to Read, Watch, and Listen to Today
Suggestions for your downtime this Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Santi Visalli / Getty Civil Rights Undone
How Trump could unwind generations of progress
Cheriss May / NurPhoto / Getty How the Negro Spiritual Changed American Popular Music—And America Itself
In 1871, the Fisk University singers embarked on a tour that introduced white Americans to a Black sound that would reshape the nation.
Photo-illustration by Gabriela Pesqueira. Source: Bettmann / Getty. Holy Week: Resurrection
Part 8: Whoever believes in him shall not perish
