LISTEN TO BLACK VOICES
This page has resources such as videos, articles, books, films, podcasts, documents and more for gaining consciousness, learning, and taking action.
RECOMMENDED STARTER RESOURCES
I have selected these materials which I hope, in combination, provide an introduction to racism and the Black Lives Matter movement. I recommend these materials to anyone who has not seen them before.
"How to Raise a Black Son in America" - Clint Smith, TED
Series Interview from Humans of New York, 2017
"Black Parents Explain How to Deal with the Police" - CUT
"George Floyd, Minneapolis Protests, Ahmaud Arbery & Amy Cooper" - The Daily Show
"Let's Get to the Root of Racial Justice - Megan Ming Francis, TED
LARGE RESOURCE COMPILATIONS
These documents and websites include a ton of compiled info and resources, mostly surrounding action items and info as well as educational resources.
A Guide to Allyship - (This document is super new-ally-friendly!)
Antiracist Allyship Starter Pack
#GeorgeFloyd+ Massive Compilation
"Justice in June" a calendar with educational articles and videos
FOR CHILDREN AND STUDENTS
It's never too early to teach a child about racism. The sooner the better. Childhood is an important development time where biases can take shape.
"How to Talk to Kids About Race" - @theconsciouskid
"Racism + Violence: Helping Kids Handle the News" - @childmindinstitute
ARTICLES
These are enlightening articles on various subjects.
"Whose Grief? Our Grief" - Saeed Jones
"White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" - Peggy McIntosh
"There's No Such Thing as a Pretty Protest" - Tirhakah Love
"The Case for Reparations" - Ta-Nehisi Coates
"Confessions of a Former Bastard Cop" - Officer A. Cab
"75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice" - Corinne Shutack
VIDEOS
These are relevant videos that I found particularly thought-provoking.
"How to Deconstruct Racism, One Headline at a Time" - Baratunde Thurston, TED
"Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man" - Emmanuel Acho
"A Conversation About Growing Up Black | Op-Docs | The New York Times"
"How America's public schools keep kids in poverty | Kandice Sumner" - TED
"We need to talk about an injustice | Bryan Stevenson" - TED
"The symbols of systemic racism — and how to take away their power | Paul Rucker" - TED
"The Dangers of Whitewashing Black History | David Ikard | TEDxNashville" - TEDxTalks
BLACK COMEDIANS ON BLACK LIVES MATTER
Comedians Michael Che and Dave Chappelle discuss racism and related topics.
FILMS & SERIES
These are films and series on the topics of Black history, racism, the experience of being Black in America, and much more. Credit to Black Film Allegiance for a majority of this list: @bfallegiance
DOCUMENTARIES
13th - Ava DuVernay (Netflix & Youtube)
20 Ft From Stardom - Morgan Neville (Netflix)
Homecoming - Sam Esmail (Netflix)
I Called Him Morgan - Kasper Collin (Netflix)
Miles Davis: The Birth of Cool - Stanley Nelson Jr. (Netflix)
Paris is Burning - Jennie Livingston (Netflix)
Quincy - Rashida Jones, Alan Hicks (Netflix)
Strong Island - Yance Ford (Netflix)
The Black Godfather - Reginald Hudlin (Netflix)
The Negro Soldier (1944) - Stuart Heisler (Netflix)
The Two Killings of Sam Cooke - Kelly Duane de la Vega (Netflix)
What Happened, Miss Simone? - Liz Garbus (Netflix)
Amazing Grace: Aretha Franklin - Alan Elliott, Sydney Pollack (Hulu)
Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Michel Basquiat - Sara Driver (Hulu)
Grace Jones: Bloodlight & Bami - Sophie Fiennes (Hulu)
Standing in the Shadows of Motown - Paul Justman (Hulu)
Whitney - Kevin MacDonald (Hulu)
Whose Streets? - Sabaah Folayan (Hulu)
4 Little Girls - Spike Lee (Amazon Prime Video)
Hale Country, This Morning This Evening - RaMell Ross (Amazon Prime Video)
I Am Not Your Negro - Raoul Peck (Amazon Prime Video)
No No: A Dockumentary - Jeff Radice (Amazon Prime Video)
Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities - Stanley Nelson (Amazon Prime Video)
The Central Park Five - Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon (Amazon Prime Video)
Unseen - Marina Paulenka (Amazon Prime Video)
When the Levees Broke - Spike Lee (Amazon Prime Video)
MOVIES
Ali - Michael Mann (Netflix)
American Son - Kenny Leon (Netflix)
Bad Boys - Michael Bay (Netflix)
Bad Boys II - Michael Bay (Netflix)
Dear White People - Justin Simien (Netflix)
Dolemite is My Name - Craig Brewer (Netflix)
Eddie Murphy: Delirious - Bruce Gowers (Netflix)
Harlem Nights - Eddie Murphy (Netflix)
Kings of Comedy - Spike Lee (Netflix)
Mo Money - Peter MacDonald (Netflix)
Moonlight - Barry Jenkins (Netflix)
Mudbound - Dee Rees (Netflix)
Paid in Full - Charles Stone III (Netflix)
Purple Rain - Albert Magnoli (Netflix)
See You Yesterday - Stefon Bristol (Netflix)
She's Gotta Have It - Spike Lee (Netflix)
When They See Us - Ava DuVernay (Netflix)
American Gangster - Ridley Scott (Hulu)
Barbershop - Tim Story (Hulu)
Bessie - Dee Rees (Hulu)
Eve's Bayou - Kasi Lemmons (Hulu)
For Colored Girls - Tyler Perry (Hulu)
Hitch - Andy Tennant (Hulu)
If Beale Street Could Talk - Berry Jenkins (Hulu)
Miss Evers' Boys - Joseph Sargent (Hulu)
Precious - Lee Daniels (Hulu)
Sorry to Bother You - Boots Riley (Hulu)
The Brothers - Gary Hardwick (Hulu)
The Hate U Give - George Tillman Jr. (Hulu)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - George C. Wolfe (Hulu)
Waiting to Exhale - Forest Whitaker (Hulu)
What Men Want - Adam Shankman (Hulu)
Car Wash (Original) - Michael Schultz (Amazon Prime Video)
Crooklyn - Spike Lee (Amazon Prime Video)
Don't Be A Menace - Paris Barclay (Amazon Prime Video)
Girl 6 - Spike Lee (Amazon Prime Video)
Hollywood Shuffle - Robert Townsend (Amazon Prime Video)
I'm Gonna Get You Sucka - Keenen Ivory Wayans (Amazon Prime Video)
Marshall - Reginald Hudlin (Amazon Prime Video)
Mo Betta Blues - Spike Lee (Amazon Prime Video)
Soul Food - George Tillman Jr. (Amazon Prime Video)
The Best Man - Malcolm D. Lee (Amazon Prime Video)
The Five Heartbeats - Robert Townsend (Amazon Prime Video)
The Golden Child - Michael Ritchie (Amazon Prime Video)
The Last Black Man in San Francisco - Joe Talbot (Amazon Prime Video)
The Wiz - Sidney Lumet (Amazon Prime Video)
BOOKS
Books to read on various topics, mostly written by Black authors.
All About Love - Bell Hooks
America's Original Sin - Wallis
An African American and Latinx Histroy of the United States - Paul Ortiz
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States - Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
Blindspot - Mahzarin R. Banaji, Anthony G. Greenwalk
Citizen - Calaudia Rankine
Good Talk - Mira Jacob
Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Have Black Lives Ever Mattered - Mumia Abu-Jamal
How Does it Feel to be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America - Moustafa Bayoumi
How to be an Antiracist - Ibram X. Kendi
I'm Still Here - Austin Channing Brown
Jamaica Kincaid - Annie John
Just Mercy - Bryan Stevenson
Me and White Supremacy - Saad
Mindful of Race - Ruth King
Minor Feelings - Cathy ParkHong
My Sister. The Serial Killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite
On Beauty - Zadie Smith
Playing in the Dark - Toni Morrison
Purple Hibiscus - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Queenie - Candice Carty-Williams
Salvage the Bones - Jesmyn Ward
Sister Outsider - Audre Lorde
So You Want to Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo
Stamped - Jason Reynolds
Stamped From the Beginning - Doram X. Kendi
Swing Time - Zadie Smith
Tears We Cannot Stop - Michael Eric Dyson
The Black Woman, An Anthology - Toni Cade Bambara
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin
The Fire This Time - Jesmyn Ward
The Hundred Wells of Salaga - Ayesha Harruna Attah
The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses - Oyeronke Oyewumi
The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander
The Warmth of Other Suns - Isabel Wilderson
This Book is Anti-Racist - Tiffany Jewell
This Bridge Called My Back - Rosario Morales
This Mournable Bodu - Tsitsi Dangarembga
Washington Black - Esi Edugyan
When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip Hop Feminist Breaks It Down - Joan Morgan
When They Call You a Terrorist - Patrisse Cullors
White Fragility - Robin Diangelo
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria - Tatum
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
With the Fire on High - Elizabeth Acevedo
Women, Race & Class - Angela Y. Davis
PODCASTS
You can listen to these podcasts while driving, exercising, and almost anywhere! They feature Black hosts, Black history, current affairs, and much more!
Wellness
Black Girl in Om
The Friend Zone
Therapy for Black Girls
Getting' Grown
Power Hour
The Gurls Talk Podcast
HOODxHOLISTIC
Culture
It's been a Minute with Sam Sanders
Small doses with Amanda Seales
Still Processing
The Nod
Go off, Sis
Say Your Mind
Current Affairs
Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air
Pod Save the People
Higher Learning with Van
Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsey
The Right Time with Bomani Jones
Jemele Hill is Unbothered
Interest
Lexicon Valley with John McWhorter
LeVar Burton Reads
Snap Judgement
Reveal
StarTalk Radio with Neil deGrasse Tyson
Codeswitch
Ear Hustle
Business
Fck Work But Ima Go
Innovation Crush
The Ash Cash Show
Side Hustle Pro
Scam Goddess
Game of Grow
Behind the Brilliance
Championing Women's Voices
Mattie James the Podcast
Parenting
NATAL
Good Moms Bad Choices
That Black Couple
Sisters in Loss
Modern Mommies
Shades of Black: Parenting Podcast
Mommifaceted
Entertainment
Strong Black Legends with Tracy Clayton
The Read
The Joe Budden Podcast
The Receipts
Why Won't You Date Me? with Nicole Byer
The Black Guy Who Tips
Another Round
2 Dope Queens
Codeswitch