Books, Movies, and TV
Many of these, including the TV shows, are available online or at a library.
The website GoWatchIt is a good way to find a movie online.
The website GoWatchIt is a good way to find a movie online.
Books
The Beautiful Struggle - Ta-Nehisi Coats, a memoir of coming of age in Baltimore.
Kindred - Octavia Butler, a contemporary black woman is pulled back via intermittent time travel to the age of slavery. An iconic work in the SciFi genre.
How Long 'til Black Future Month - is an amazing collection of science fiction short stories by multi-award-winning author Nora K. Jemison.
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry - the Newberry Award winning book by Mildred Taylor (part of a series well -worth reading even for adults).
The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas, a teenage girl pulled between two worlds which collide when she witnesses the fatal shooting of her close friend.
Movies - fiction
If Beale Street Could Talk, dir. Barry Jenkins, novel by James Baldwin
The Hate U Give, dir. George Tilman Jr., novel by Angie Thomas
Black Panther -
You may also want to read these reviews from Awesome Luvvie and Benjamin Dixon.
Moonlight, dir. Barry Jenkins
Get Out, dir. Jordan Peele
Middle of Nowhere, dir. Ava DuVernay
Eve's Bayou, dir. Kasi Lemmons
The Hate U Give, dir. George Tilman Jr., novel by Angie Thomas
Black Panther -
You may also want to read these reviews from Awesome Luvvie and Benjamin Dixon.
Moonlight, dir. Barry Jenkins
Get Out, dir. Jordan Peele
Middle of Nowhere, dir. Ava DuVernay
Eve's Bayou, dir. Kasi Lemmons
TV - fiction
Movies & TV - documentary
The Pieces I Am, dir. Timothy Greenfield-Sanders about the life and work of author Toni Morrison.
Also see the history section.
Also see the history section.