Films and books about African-Americans, black people, history of slavery, social justice movements, police brutality, prisons, inspiring black leaders.
MOVIES
- 12 year a slave
- 13th state (on Netflix)
- Harriet
- The Color Purple
- When they see us (Netflix)
- Selma
- Django unchained (directed by Tarantino)
- Trial by Media, episode about Amadou Diallo (Netflix)
- Hidden Figures
- Dear White People
- The Kalief Browder Story (Netflix, produced by Jay-Z and Harvey Weinstein)
- The Help (based on a book written by a white woman about black people, has a controversy around it, so choose yourself if this is something you want to watch)
- Fences
- Loving (director Jeff Nichols)
- The Butler
- Fried Green Tomatoes
- Malcolm X
- The Rosa Parks Story
- Dark Girls (documentary)
- Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools (documentary)
- She Did That (documentary)
- Black Panthers: Vanguard of The Revolution
- Clemency (Director Chinonye Chukwu)
- The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (Netflix, director David France)
- Who Killed Malcolm X? (Netflix)
- Blood & Water (Netflix)
- Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C. J. Walker (Netflix)
- Becoming (Netflix)
- Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat (Hulu)
- I Am Not Your Negro
- If Beale Street Could Talk
- Whose Streets?
- When I Get Home by Solange
- King in the Wilderness (documentary)
- Just Mercy
- Queen & Slim (Director Melina Matsoukas)
- Moonlight (Director Barry Jenkins)
- Waves (Director Trey Edward Shults)
- BlacKkKlansman (Director Spike Lee)
- Get Out
- US
- Malcolm X (1992)
- Homecoming (Netflix)

BOOKS
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
- The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
- White Fragility by Robin Diangelo
- Why I Am No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- How To Be An Anti-Racists by Ibram X. Kendi
- Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson
- Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series) by Audre Lorde
- Freedom Is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- A collection of PDF zines click here