
Resolve to learn: Make history part of your 2025 resolutions
For the last two weeks, I’ve been both heads-up and heads-down while selecting history books that I, readers, and my podcast listeners can immerse ourselves in this year. It was hard to choose. But it’s such a glorious problem to have as an adult—so many options that tell the real contributions and experiences of Black Americans—instead of opposite problem I had as a kid in elementary school where my textbooks included only slavery and Africa, which were “covered” dismissively and through a white supremacy lens