“The thing about Black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.”
—Henry Louis Gates
Documentaries/Movies/Tv Shows
All In: The Fight for Democracy
Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America
Books
We’ve Got People, Ryan Grim
When White Supremacy Knocks Fight Back, Dr. Wes Bellamy
Monumental, Dr. Wes Bellamy
Becoming, Michelle Obama
Paradise, Toni Morrison
A Promised Land, Barack Obama
Piecing me Together, Renee Watson
Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo
Black Klansman, Ron Stallworth
Nobody, Mark Lamont Hill
The Third Reconstruction, William Barber
All About Love: New Visions, bell hooks
Slavery By Another Name, Douglas A. Blackmon
Stamped From the Beginning, Ibram X. Kendi
The Broken Earth trilogy, N.K. Jemisin
Kindred, Octavia Butler
Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler
Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward
Sing, Unburied. Sing. Jesmyn Ward
How the Word is Passed, Clint Smith
Thick and Other Essays, Tressie McMillan Cottom
Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power, Psyche Williams-Forson
Ain’t I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism, bell hooks
All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women’s Studies, edited by Akasha Hull, Patricia Bell Scott, and Barbara Smith
Disintegration, Eugene Robinson
The Light We Carry, Michelle Obama
Podcasts
Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw
Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
Nice White Parents (Serial and The New York Times)
Pod For The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)
Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)
