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,

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