Free Black Thought Newsletter #4
Recommended reading from the Free Black Thought team, December 2023
Here is a helpful collection of recent articles and podcasts from the Journal of Free Black Thought, as well other curated articles from voices we think you may enjoy.
Picture Book Recommendations for Diversity without Ideology
Connie Morgan’s list of the best books to give young children this holiday season. Choosing what books your children read is serious business. At least it should be. Even picture books should be carefully curated. I am fully convinced that if parents treated reading with the level of reverence they do...
What Black Americans Need to Thrive | Glenn Loury & Erec Smith | The Glenn Show
Glenn Loury and Erec Smith (York College, Free Black Thought). Recorded November 13, 2023. How Free Black Thought is fostering agency in the black community, Is “black heterodoxy” a euphemism for “black conservatism”?
Black DEI Director Fired for “Whitesplaining”
Glenn Loury, The Glenn Show. My guest this week, Tabia Lee, the former DEI director at De Anza Community College, ran afoul of progressive bigotry when she made the utterly ordinary suggestion to her colleagues that it might be helpful to set an agenda for the semester.
Empowered Humanity Theory: A Framework For An Empowering And Dignified Life
A new book from FBT Co-Founder Jason Littlefield. Empowered Humanity Theory (EHT) is a theory that humans have the innate capacity to create a better world for themselves by developing three specific attitudes and engaging in 3 Pathways of Practice that strengthen the attitudes.
Michael DC Bowen: On Privilege
Obligatory Seriousness. What does it mean to have “privilege” or a “privileged upbringing”? Is this just having parents with money, or is there something else involved?
Free Black Thought Podcast: Ep. 24 - Parallels Between Blacks and Jews (Ashira Solomon)
Political Commentator and moderator Ashira Solomon tells her side of the story as a black American-Israeli Jew.