February 2021 Black history month resource sheet
Below are resources to help you get going or continue your education during black history month! Set up a movie night with your roommates, listen to a podcast or music during a workout, or curl up with a good book!
Movies / shows / videos:
Malcolm X, HBO max
Selma, hulu
If beale street could talk, hulu when they see us, netflix becoming, netflix self-made, netflix
13th, netflix
Ma rainey’s black bottom, netflix
Moonlight, netflix
Remember the titans, Disney+
42, YouTube, amazon
One night in Miami, amazon prime
Judas and the black messiah, amazon prime
Radical social justice education through high fives, jen fry
Podcasts:
1619, the New York times
Uncivil, gimlet
Black girl in om, Lauren ash
The humanity archive, Jermaine fowler
Historically black, apm reports & the Washington post
School colors, mark Winston Griffith & max freedman
Blackbelt voices, adena j. white, Kara wilkins & Katrina dupins
Black history buff, king kurus
Witness black history, BBC world service
Noire histoir, Natasha mceachron
February 2021 Black history month resource sheet
Books / readings:
1619, the New York times
Year of yes, Shonda rhimes
Expect to win, Carla Harris
Just mercy, Bryan Stevenson
Hidden figures, Margot lee Shetterly
Zami: a new spelling of my name, Audre lorde
Assata: an autobiography, Assata shakur the new Jim crow, Michelle alexander freedom is a constant struggle, Angela y. Davis how we fight for our lives, Saeed jones
I know why the caged bird sings, maya angelou
The warmth of other suns, Isabel Wilkerson
Exiles of Eden, ladan Osman
They were her property, Stephanie e. jones- rogers
The hate u give, angie Thomas
Between the world and me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
Music:
Setting the record straight on American music’s black roots
The ‘whitewashing’ of black music: a dark chapter in rock history
I put a spell on you, screamin’ jay Hawkins
Ball and chain, big mama Thornton
Hound dog, big mama Thornton
I shot the sheriff, bob Marley
Tutti frutti, little Richard
Strange fruit, Billie holiday