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Resources

Welcome to our Coming Together For Good Resource Page! This ongoing resource collective will support each of us as we continue to grow, learn and focus on healing justice and ensuring equality for all. From documentaries to podcasts to poetry there is a resource for everyone regardless of starting point. 

Films:

12 Years A Slave, Steve McQueen

Amistad, Steven Spielberg

Bamboozled, Spike Lee

Do the Right Thing, Spike Lee

Fruitvale Station, Ryan Coogler

Glory, Edward Zwick

Hidden Figures, Theodore Melfi 

Lean On Me, John G. Avildsen

Malcom X, Spike Lee

Mississippi Burning, Alan Parker

Once Upon A Time When We Were Colored, Tim Reid

Selma, Ava DuVernay

The Color Purple, Steven Spielberg

The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete, George Tillman Jr.

Get Out, Jordan Peele

Blindspotting, Carlos López Estrada

BlackKklansman, Spike Lee

Loving, Jeff Nichols

For Colored Girls, Tyler Perry

Us, Jordan Peele

Just Mercy (Free on Amazon and Apple through June 2020), Destin Daniel Cretton

The Hate You Give, George Tillman Jr.

The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Joe Talbot

Documentaries

13th (Netflix)

4 Little Girls (HBO)

Dark Girls

Eyes on the Prize

Many Rivers To Cross (PBS)

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (PBS)

Up From Slavery

I Am Not Your Negro

Time: The Kalief Browder Story (Netflix)

King In The Wilderness (HBO)

Rest In Power: The Trayvon Martin Story

Baltimore Rising (HBO)

2 Fists Up

What Happened Miss Simone (Netflix)

Precious Knowledge (PBS)

Black in Latin America (PBS)

The Loving Generation

True Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight For Equality (HBO)

Who Killed Malcom X? (Netflix) 

When They See Us (Netflix)

They Gotts Have Us (Netflix) 

Books: 

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells

Roadmap to Reconciliation by Brenda Salter McNeil

Some of My Best Friends Are Black by Tanner Colby

Prophetic Lament by Soon-Chan Rah

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley and Malcolm X

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

White Awake by Daniel Hill

I'm Still Here by Austin Channing Brown

White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in The Cafeteria by Beverly Daniel Tatum

We Were 8 Years In Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois

Letters To A Birmingham Jail: A Response to the Words and Dreams of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by Albert Tate, Soong-Chan Rah, Craford Loritts, John M. Perkins, Charlie Dates, Sanders Wilson

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein

Rethinking Incarceration: Advocating for Justice That Restores by Dominique DuBois Gilliard

How to Be Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (National Book Award Winner) by Ibram X. Kendi

Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldua

The Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire

Evicted by Matthew Desmond

The Myth of the Model Minority: Asian Americans Facing Racism by Rosalind S. Chou, Joe Feagin

The Color of Compromise by Jemar Tisby

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

The Deepest Well by Nadine Burke Harris

Historic Figures:

Fannie Lou Hamer

Marcus Garvey

Fred Hampton

Ella Baker

Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)

Angela Davis

Medgar Evers

Malcom X

Ralph David Abernathy

Martin Luther Kind Jr.

W.E.B. DuBois

Nat Turner

Frederick Douglass

Huey P. Newton

Kathleen Cleaver

Shirley Chisholm

Sojourner Truth

Mary McCleod Bethune

Madame CJ Walker

Ida B. Wells

Dolores Huerta

Cesar Chavez

Assata Shakur

TV: 

Blackish

Roots (Miniseries)

The Wire

Key & Peele

Wyatt Cenac's Problem Areas (HBO) Free on Youtube right now

MTV Decoded

On My Block (Netflix)

Music: 

"Songs in The Key of Live" by Stevie Wonder

"Undun" by The Roots

"Heavn" by Jaimila Woods

"A Seat at the Table" by Solange

"Church Clothes 3" by Lecrae

"What's Going On" by Marvin Gaye

"Good Kid m.A.A.d. City" by Kendrick Lamar (Helpful guide to follow along with the story: https://www. highsnobiety. com/2016/10/26/kend rick-lamar-good-kidmaad-city-analysis/

"Fear of a Black Planet" by Public Enemy