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

CodeSwitchListen

Stick to Sports Listen 

Still ProcessingListen

The 1619 Project PodcastListen

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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