This past week #BlackoutTuesday created a space for Black voices to be heard. We know that we must continue to amplify black voices beyond a hashtag and continue to posture ourselves to listen and learn. We have gathered a list of books, podcasts, and movies/documentaries that will help us learn about the plight of racial inequality, and it’s systemic impact and implications to the Black community. We hope these resources are a source of learning, introspection into our own biases, that lead to action.
Books
We are linking books through Bookshop.org. Which helps support local independent bookstores in the United States. Read more about their mission here. Each book title is linked:
How to be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X Kendi
How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones
Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Others:
- Good Talk by Mira Jacob
- The Fire This Time by Jesmyn Ward
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin Diangelo
- Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
- Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Britteny Cooper
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Podcasts:
- 1619
- Running From Cops
- Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror
- The History of American Slavery
- Serial: Season 3
Movies & Documentaries:
When They See Us
Available on Netflix
13th
Available on Netflix
Just Mercy
Available on Amazon Prime (free for the month of June)
I’m Not Your Negro
Available on Amazon Prime
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
Available on Amazon Prime
Selma
Available on Amazon Prime (free for the month of June)
The Central Park Five
Available on Amazon Prime
BlacKkKlasman
Available on HBO
American Son
Available on Netflix
TED Talk