How do you tell the story of African American history in 24 books?

For Black History Month, Ebrim Kendi will be here to talk about books that capture each

decade of race and racism in America.

People are familiar with the birth of a nation.

Well, that motion picture was based on this book, The Clansman.

And basically in this book depicts the Ku Kruks clan as the savior of white people who

were being terrorized by Black politicians and voters during the reconstruction era.

Why is it creatures like to consume literally their own?

Bill Shutt will be here to tell us about his new book, Cannibalism, A Perfectly Natural

History.

When these hatchlings come out, they squirm all over their months and people wondered about

that behavior and what they found was that these hatchlings were literally gripping onto

their mother's skin and peeling her like a grape and consuming her skin.

And we'll talk about what we and the wider world are reading.

This is Inside the New York Times Book Review.

I'm Pamela Paul.

Ebrim Kendi joins us now.

He is a professor of history at the University of Florida and he won the National Book Award

for Nonfiction for his book, Stamped From the Beginning, The Definitive History of Racist

Ideas in America.

Ebrim, congratulations and thank you for being here.

Thank you for a pleasure to be on the show.

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