These resources include books, podcasts, documentaries, movies, and TV shows that celebrate Black life and gives the opportunity to learn more about the Black experience and Black history.
- Podcast-Still Processing
- Still Processing is a New York Times culture podcast hosted by Jenna Wortham, who works for the New York Times Magazine, and Wesley Morris, the paper’s critic at large.
- Book-Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
- The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how our lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions.
- Movie/TV- Black-ish
- Black-ish follows an upper middle class African-American family led by Andre ‘Dre’ (Anthony Anderson) and Rainbow Johnson (Tracee Ellis Ross). The show revolves around the family’s lives, as they juggle several personal and sociopolitical issues.
- “The Word”: Six-year-old Jack doesn’t think twice about using the “n-word” during his rendition of Kanye West’s “Gold Digger,” triggering a heated debate at school and at home. It was a clear signal that creator Kenya Barris was interested in more than just generating laughs. (Season 2)
- “Hope”: Nearly the entire half-hour takes place around the TV set, as the family waits to hear whether a white police officer will be indicted on charges that he assaulted a young black man. Powerful, but never preachy. (Season 2)
- “Juneteenth”: Before jamming to “Kiss,” the cast embarked on a musical opus in an entirely different key, one that used a stripped-down stage and revved-up choreography to commemorate the holiday that marks the date slavery was officially abolished in Texas. (Season 4)
- Streaming on Hulu
- Documentary- Owned: A Tale of Two Americas
- Owned unearths the complicated, painful, often disturbing history of housing policy in America, shifting perceptions about what the idea of home means.
- Streaming on Amazon Prime for free
- Children’s Book – Juneteenth for Mazie
- Mazie is ready to celebrate liberty. She is ready to celebrate freedom. She is ready to celebrate a great day in American history—the day her ancestors were no longer slaves. Mazie remembers the struggles and the triumph as she gets ready to celebrate Juneteenth.