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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.
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
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
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)
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
Bored of Education- Propaganda
To All the Little Black Girls With Big Names- iCon
3 Ways to Speak English- Jamila Lyiscott
Black Woman Steps Up to Mic- iCon
Compassion Fatigue- Ebony Stewart
Other Ideas For Pepsi Commercials- Amir Safi
A Letter to Whomever is Next- Natasha Hooper
Beautiful Black Man- Fredric Sims
And what is a black body...- Ayokunie Faloma
on learning america's english- Pages Matam
Dear White Girls in my Spanish Class- Ariana Brown
The Boy Cried Bullet- Darrien Case
"Yo Soy Joaquin/I Am Joaquin" -Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzalez
"An Open Letter to the Protesters Outside the Planned Parenthood" = Elizabeth Acevedo
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
Ta Nehisi Coates series on Reparations
Vox: The Guidebook that helped Black Americans travel during segregation
The New York Times- Race Related
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack By Peggy McIntosh
DETOUR‐SPOTTING For White Anti‐Racists
Blackish
Roots (Miniseries)
The Wire
Key & Peele
Wyatt Cenac's Problem Areas (HBO) Free on Youtube right now
MTV Decoded
On My Block (Netflix)
"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