Today we’re doing something different. With the election just two weeks away, we’re diving head first into the election and politics. Akilah Hughes, host of Crooked Media’s daily news podcast, What A Day, joins us to talk about covering news in fall 2020 and answer your questions about the election. In addition to hosting What a Day Akilah is the author of Obviously: Stories from My Timeline, a comedian, and a TV writer.

The Stacks Book Club selection for October is The Autobiography of Malcom Xas told to Alex Haley, we will discuss the book with Marc Lamont Hill on October 28th.

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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon.

• Obviously by Akilah Hughes
• What a Day (Crooked Media)
• Crooked Media
• Lovett or Leave It (Crooked Media)
• Jon Lovett
• Pod Save America (Crooked Media)
• Pod Save America (HBO)
• Vote Save America
• Bob’s Burger (FOX)
• Gideon Resnick
• Rachel Maddow
• Fusion
• The Black and Brown Forums
• Bernie Sanders
• Hilary Clinton
• Martin O’Malley
• Jorge Ramos
• Alicia Menendez
• Lindsey Graham
• Pete Buttigeig
• Jaime Harrison
• “Keep Calm and Harrison” (What a Day, Crooked Media)
• “Take it Espy” (What a Day, Crooked Media)
• “Racism Cont’d” (What a Day, Crooked Media)
• “Still No Justice for Breonna Taylor” (What a Day, Crooked Media)
• Michael Barbaro
• Steve Kornacki
• Nate Silver
• Feedly
• Twitter
• “Video shows comedian confront Harvey Weinstein during performance” (The Washington Post)
• Animal Crossing
• Mario Kart
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• MacArthur Fellows
• Jacqueline Woodson
• N. K. Jemisin
• “The Short Stacks 28: Jacqueline Woodson//Red at the Bone” (The Stacks)
• BookCon
• Watchmen (HBO)
• Nicholas Britell
• Regina King
• Voter Registration Deadlines
• Election Protection Hotline
• Ballotpedia
• “It’s no wonder hundreds of millions have been spent on Prop. 22. A lot is at stake” (George Skelton, The Los Angeles Times)
• Voter’s Edge
• “Questions to Mark Zuckerberg show many senators don’t get Facebook” (Shara Tibken, cnet.com)
• Libro.FM

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