We The People: Democracy Lives Here

The Body Politic is another great example of the new generation of politicians, young people who deeply care about their community, doing everything they can to improve it. You have to hope that in the future people like Brandon Scott won’t be a standout, they’ll be the norm.

Let the Little Light Shine follows a remarkable movement: a group of people, some white and some Black, upper-middle-class and low-income, advocating for Black children’s futures. It weaves from classroom to district boardroom, a student’s kitchen to City Hall, meetings for the conversion of NTA and against. In doing so, it delves into the thorny politics of gentrification – the sanitized language of displacement, who and what is lost in the name of growth.

Fire Through Dry Grass paints a human-scale portrait of the devastation inflicted upon American nursing homes during the coronavirus pandemic, especially those housing people of color, immigrants, and formerly incarcerated people. It’s an insider’s story that needs to be told before the white-washed narrative is put down.