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🗓️ 8 June 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Jeff and Rebecca talk about how this week’s protests against systemic racism and police brutality intersect with the world of books and give the best advice they can to a long-time listener entering a new phase of life. This episode is sponsored by: TBR Bombas Pride Don’t Make a Sound: A Sawyer Brooks Thriller Kindle Edition by T.R. Ragan The Last Flight by Julie Clark Discussed in this episode: The Vanishing Half Ways to Make Sunshine by Renee Watson Me and White Supremacy So You Want to Talk about Race Skill in Action PW to hire writer to cover issues of race & diversity in publishing 5 Books About Black Movements and Systemic Racism in America Stamped from the Beginning Available Free on Spotify Lee and Low’s Infographic on Black Employment in Publishing Snoop Dogg to make series adaption of Joe Ide’s IQ books See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Book Ride Podcast, it's a weekly news and talk show about what's new, cool and we're talking
0:09.6	about in the world of books and reading and global geopolitical stuff happening
0:15.0	apparently now at the same time as what we do. We're recording on Thursday
0:19.2	June 4th, 2020 and believe it or not since the last time we spoke to you guys, the world in America is even
0:27.0	more turned upside down, even more in distress, even more tumultuous and fraught.
0:35.0	Well, actually, you know what?
0:37.0	It's just as fraught as it was.
0:38.0	It's just that people are taking the streets in greater numbers about
0:41.0	and people are paying attention.
0:42.0	We'll get to a little bit.
0:42.9	We'll spend some time at the top of the show talking about,
0:46.4	you know, the protests and the events of the last week
0:49.6	that are the culmination of several deaths involving police of black people that is of
0:56.4	course not just about that but you know what America has done to black people and
1:00.6	people of color for you know several centuries now. But Rebecca, you know
1:06.4	20 20 is like man this is quite a year and then 20 was like hold my beer like
1:10.4	to itself. You know it's it's it's not a book story and it is a book story
1:16.7	we're going to focus on touching on the pieces of I'm not even sure what the
1:20.7	the race the racial protests the social justice protests like I'm not even
1:26.0	sure we're calling this at this particular moment nomenclature is even fuzzy at this
1:31.4	point we know what it's about but not what it is to some degree.
1:34.1	Yeah I mean I think that's because it's about many things and I'm seeing it broadly
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