Movies:
DOCUMENTARIES AND VIDEOS:
A Love Song For Latasha - Dir: Sophia Nahli Allison - Netflix
4 Little Girls - Spike Lee - Hulu
13th - Ava DuVernay - Netflix
Black Is....Black Ain't - Marlon Riggs
Creative Justice Initiative - YouTube Channel
Exterminate All The Brutes - Raoul Peck - HBO
I Am Not Your Negro - Raoul Peck - Amazon Prime
Good Trouble - Dawn Porter - Amazon
King in the Wilderness - Peter Kunhardt - HBO
Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices - Fracaswell Hyman - Netflix
BASED ON HISTORICAL EVENTS:
A Raisin in the Sun - Daniel Petrie - Amazon Prime
A Time To Kill - Joel Schumacher - Amazon Prime
Daughters of the Dust - Joel Schumacher - Amazon Prime
Fruitvale Station - Ryan Coogler - Amazon Prime
Just Mercy - Destin Daniel Cretton - Amazon Prime
Killer of Sheep - Charles Burnett - Directors Website
Malcolm X - Arnold Perl - YouTube
Mississippi Burning - Alan Parker - Amazon Prime
Selma - Ava DuVernay - Amazon Prime
The Color Purple - Steven Spielberg - Amazon Prime
The United States v. Billie Holiday - Dir: Lee Daniels
To Sleep With Anger - Charles Burnett - Amazon Prime
Tongues Untied - Marlon Riggs
Time - Dir: Garrett Bradley
FICTIONAL ACCOUNTS:
Imitation of Life 1956 - Douglas Sirkt - Amazon Prime
Bamboozled - Spike Lee
The Help - Tate Taylor - Netflix
Dear White People - Justin Simien - Amazon Prime
Podcasts
CodeSwitch - Listen
Stick to Sports - Listen
Still Processing - Listen
The 1619 Project Podcast - Listen
Nice White Parents - Listen
LECTURES
The Urgency of Intersectionality - Kimberle Crenshaw, TedTalk - Watch
Shifting the Culture of Anti-racist Organizing - Tawana Petty - Watch
We encourage you to form a reading group with 2-10+ friends, and commit to meet regularly to go through these materials together. Here are examples of articles that illustrate the reading group model.
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