2020 Live Music Party
I’m done with 2020…
Here’s to a better 2021! In the meantime, here is my annual list of live music I listen to on New Year’s Eve. It’s like going to a concert without having to wear a mask and social distancing!
About Talia Whyte
Posts by Talia Whyte:
2020: My Year in Review
I posted the top ten blog posts my readers seem to like reading based on my website metrics. A few of them are articles I wrote before 2020.
Happy Holidays and without further ado:
- Pose: Race and Ball Culture
- Things To Do Before Hiring A Ghostwriter
- (Really) Support Black-Owned Bookstores
- Cycling Isn’t Freedom For Everyone
- ACT-UP, Gran Fury & The Legacy of HIV/AIDS Activist Branding
- Pride Is About Authentic Accountability
- Why I Love Being a Census-Taker
- Why The Media Shouldn’t Do Revisionist History
- On Slave Plantations and Revisionist History
- What Mass Incarceration in America Looks Like
My Year in Books 2020
I have been reading (and rereading) a lot of books this year because of the pandemic. I made a list not only to share my reading habits but also to hold myself accountable to continue reading. My new year’s resolution every year is to read more books, and I think I have achieved that!
The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins
Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne
Stokley: A Life by Peniel Joseph
So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Island People by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
James Baldwin: A Biography by David Leeming
Imitations by Zadie Smith
Begin Again by Eddie Glaude
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Eight Years in Office by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treuer
The Road to Jonestown by Jeff Gunn
City of Quartz by Mike Davis
We Still Here by Marc Lamont Hill
Dust Tracks on the Road by Zora Neale Hurston
Shade by Pete Souza
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia by Winston James
Set the Night on Fire by Mike Davis
The Cooking Gene by Michael Twitty
Empire of Borders by Todd Miller
Feminist City by Leslie Kern
Song in a Weary Throat by Pauli Murray
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick by Zora Neale Hurston
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
The Sword and the Shield by Peniel Joseph
Spirit Run by Noel Alvarez
Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Educated by Tara Westover
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
Futures of Black Radicalism by Gaye Theresa Johnson
Revolting Prostitutes by Juno Mac
After Henry by Joan Didion
The Groundings of My Brothers by Walter Rodney
Black Writers Matter: James Baldwin and Maya Angelou
I found this awesome conversation on YouTube the other day between James Baldwin and Maya Angelou.