BONUS: 'Nina' And 'Just Us' Offer Ways To Start A Conversation On Race

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🗓️ 17 October 2021

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Summary

After the protests last year, we heard the phrase "racial reckoning" a lot, as some groups of people struggled to catch up with what's just been reality for many others. On this episode of NPR's new Book of the Day podcast, we've got two books that might help you reckon with that reckoning, in two different ways: Traci Todd and illustrator Christian Robinson's bright and powerful picture book biography Nina: A Story of Nina Simone and poet Claudia Rankine's Just Us: An American Conversation, in which she puts together poetry, essays and images to bring readers into an uncomfortable but necessary conversation about race.

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0:00.0	Hey, consider this listeners, it's Audie Cornish,
0:02.4	and we've got something new for you to listen to,
0:04.8	a new podcast called NPR's Book of the Day.
0:08.2	And it's just what it sounds like,
0:10.0	a way for you to discover a good read
0:12.1	or keep up with the books everyone's talking about
0:14.4	in short daily episodes, around 15 minutes.
0:18.2	That means author interviews, literary conversations,
0:21.6	unpacking big ideas across all kinds of genres,
0:24.8	memoir fiction, kids books, current events.
0:27.7	Those conversations are all recorded by NPR hosts, like me.
0:31.8	And that's what today's episode is.
0:33.5	Two books from two authors I spoke with,
0:35.8	both of whom offer ways to start
0:38.2	a new kind of conversation about race.
0:41.3	You can find more from NPR's Book of the Day
0:43.9	at the link in our episode notes.
0:46.1	Post Andrew Limbong starts things off here.
0:54.3	Hey, welcome to NPR's Book of the Day.
0:56.5	I'm Andrew Limbong.
0:58.4	Remember after the protests last year,
1:00.7	people kept using the term racial reckoning.
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