FILMS
Documentaries
Eyes on the Prize --> explores Black freedom struggles during the Civil Rights Era
13th --> exposes the racist underpinnings of America’s criminal justice system
I Am Not Your Negro --> a powerful account of race in America through the lens of renown writer, James Balwin
Whose Streets? --> focuses on the 2014 civil rights uprising in Ferguson, Missouri
After Selma --> delves into the history of voter suppression in America
Tell Them We are Rising --> documents the rich legacy of America’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)
BOSS: The Black Experience in Business --> detailed investigation of Black entrepreneurship in the 19th and 20th century
Features
When They See Us --> television mini-series that explores the impact of a false prosecution on five Black teens in Harlem. Based on true events
Selma --> historical drama that documents the 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches
The Hate U Give --> contemporary drama that follows a young high school student who witnesses and speaks out against the death of her Black male friend by a police officer
If Beale Street Could Talk --> romantic drama that follows a young Black woman attempts to exonerate her partner from a crime he was wrongfully accused of
Just Mercy --> legal drama that looks at young defense attorney, Bryan Stevenson, representation of Waltern McMillian, a Black man wrongfully convicted of murder. Based on true events
Fruitvale Station --> biographical film that recounts events leading to the 2009 murder of Oscar Grant by a white police officer in the Fruitvale district station in Oakland, California. Based on true events.
Malcom X --> biographical drama that examines major events in the life of activist, Malcolm X.
Harriet --> biographical film about the life of abolitionist, Harriet Tubman.
Books/ Articles
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
They Can’t Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Your Silence Will Not Protect You by Audre Lorde
How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice that Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer L. Eberhardt
The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson
Souls of Black Folks by W. E. B. DuBois
Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513-2008 by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr.
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation by Zoé Samudzi & William C. Anderson
The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale
“1619 Project” by Nikole Hannah-Jones, New York Times Magazine, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html
“The Case for Reparations” by Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/
