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Black history resources

 
 

5 Ways to Celebrate Black History Month (This Month & Always)

  1. Research Black Achievement

  2. Share Black Stories

  3. Support Black Businesses

  4. Celebrate Black Culture

  5. Educate Yourself on Anti-Racism


Books

  • Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

  • When Momma Speaks: The Bible and Motherhood from a Womanist Perspective by Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder

  • Black Theology and Black Power by James H. Cone

  • The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James H. Cone

  • My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem

  • Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper

  • Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

  • When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Asha Bandele and Patrisse Cullors

  • The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor

  • Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero by Kate Clifford Larson

  • Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi

  • Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum

  • Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge

  • The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person by Frederick Joseph

  • The Color of Compromise by Jemar Tisby

  • Frederick Douglas’s Autobiographies

  • Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman

  • The Very Good Gospel by Lisa Sharon Harper

Poetry & Music

Amena Brown (Poet, Author, Spoken Word)

Maya Angelou (Author, Poet)

Langston Hughes (Author, Poet)

Nikki Giovanni (Author, Poet)

Michael Kiwanuka (Musician)

Micah Bournes (Musician, Poet)

Here Comes This Dreamer by Micah Bournes (Book of Poetry)

Propaganda (Music, Rap, Spoken Word)

Chris Abani (Poetry)

Lucille Clifton (Poetry)

Movies

Rosewood 

Just Mercy

Antebellum 

American Skin

Selma

Blackkklansman

One Night in Miami

The Hate U Give

Podcasts

On Being: Episode 843 Resmaa Menakem

NPR: Code Switch

New York Times: 1619

Desert Voices: Episodes 21 & 22

People to Follow on Social Media

@josaxton

@ibramxk

@esaumccaulley

@coreyevanleak

@kathleenelie

@ohhappydani

@morganharpernichols

Children’s Books

I Am Enough - by Grace Byers

Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History - by Vashti Harrison

My Very Favorite Book in the Whole Wide World - by Mac Mitchell

Sulwe - by Lupita Nyong'o

Hair Love - by Matthew Cherry

The ABCs of Black History - by Rio Cortez

Chocolate Me! - by Taye Diggs

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We are also bringing back our traditional “Dead Poet Society” series. In this series we look deeper into the lives of certain people who have gone before us, learn from their wisdom, and discuss how their words point us to the life and teachings of Jesus. This time our Dead Poet Society series has a special focus of the BIPOC community (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color). Each week we will focus on one person from the BIPOC community and be inspired by their words and actions which continue to echo throughout time and into the present. Watch HERE.

If you have any suggestions of resources to add to this list or other ways to honor Black History Month, email us!