Resources for Black History Month
My working list of resources for anti-racism education and praxis
I found this list on my archived blog, sarainrealife, from 2020. I felt it bore sharing here, because it is a good a reminder that I need to revisit and add to this list, and continue to approach my life in a way that invites further learning, and an attitude of listening more than opining or offering answers to systemic issues that require real, deep work from all of us.
This is a working list, that needs to grow even more, for my own education, exposing my privilege and learning to be an ally.
Books:
I Bring the Voices of My People, by Chanequa Walker- Barnes
Too Heavy a Yoke, by Chanequa Walker- Barnes
Stand Your Ground, by Kelly Brown Douglas
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of our Racial Divide, by Carol Anderson. (I’ve kept the similarly titled White Fragility, by Robin DiAngelo off this list, because she is a white writer centering white experience. While it can be helpful, if you had to choose one, choose the lived experience book written by subject-matter expert)
The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, by Ibraim X. Kendi
How to be Anti-Racist, by Ibraim X. Kendi
God of the Oppressed, by James Cone
The Cross and the Lynching Tree, by James Cone
The Wretched of the Earth, by Frantz Fannon
Jesus and the Disinherited, by Howard Thurman
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Color of Compromise, by Jemar Tisby
A Black Woman’s History of the United States, by Daina Rainey Berry
Movies:
American Fiction
Malcom X (Netflix)
BlackkKlansman
Selma
Ghosts of Mississippi
Queen and Slim
Loving
Get Out
Us
The Green Mile
The Green Book
13th
Shows:
Becoming
Self-Made
Dear White People
This is Us also deals with themes surrounding the biracial adoption of a black infant by a white family
Podcasts
Pass the Mic
Code Switch
Organizations
Southern Poverty Law Center
Equal Justice Initiative Memorial and Museum
Black Lives Matter
NAACP
The Trayvon Martin Foundation
Follow on Social Media
Chanequa Walker-Barnes
Robert the Contemplative
Andre Henry
Jemar Tisby
Kelly Brown Douglas
Otis Moss, III
Austin Channing Brown
What would you add to this list? What are you learning during Black History Month, and how is it informing your experience of embodied belonging on this journey of being human, together?
This is such a good list! I'd add the new documentary adaptation of Stamped from the Beginning, as well as anything by bell hooks.