In the book <a href="https://thenewpress.com/books/enemies-love" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Enemies in Love</a>, journalist and Columbia University professor <a href="https://twitter.com/msabclark" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Alexis Clark</a> narrates the romance between an African-American nurse and a German prisoner of war during WWII. Maria and Julio talk to Alexis about how the challenges of this era are still relevant today.   ITT Staff Picks

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<li>From the <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/armys-first-black-nurses-had-tend-to-german-prisoners-war-180969069/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Smithsonian.com</a>: How Black nurses in World War II were relegated to take care of Nazis. </li>
<li>Alexis Clark's interview with <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2018/05/27/555619978/what-happens-when-two-enemies-fall-in-love" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NPR's Code Switch</a>.</li>
<li>The two battles that Black soldiers experienced in WWII (from <a href="https://theconversation.com/african-americans-fighting-fascism-and-racism-from-wwii-to-charlottesville-82551?xid=PS_smithsonian" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Conversation</a>).
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