African-American Classics by
Stories and poems by America's earliest black authors including Kyle Baker (Artist); Shepherd Hendrix (Artist); Kevin Taylor (Artist); Leilani Hickerson (Artist); Kenjji Marshall (Artist); Keith Mallett (Artist); Larry Poncho Brown (Artist); John Jennings (Artist); Glenn Brewer (Artist); Masheka Wood (Artist); Titus V. Thomas (Artist); Afua Richardson (Artist); Mac McGill (Artist); Jimmie Robinson (Artist); Lance Tooks (Editor); Langston Hughes; Zora Neale Hurston; W. E. B. Du Bois; Jean Toomer; Paul Laurence Dunbar; Alice Dunbar Nelson; Charles W. Chesnutt; Trevor Von Eeden (Artist); Claude McKay; Florence Lewis Bentley; Frances E. W. Harper; Robert W. Bagnall; Ethel M. Caution; Leila Amos Pendleton; James D. Corrothers; Effie Lee Newsome; James Edwin Campbell; James Weldon Johnson; Jeremy Love (Artist); Alex Simmons; Christopher Priest; Mat Johnson; Tom Pomplun (Editor); W. E. B. DuBois; Randy DuBurke (Artist); Stan Shaw (Artist); Milton Knight (Artist); Arie Monroe (Artist); Jim Webb (Artist).
Caste: the Origins of our Discontent by
Wilkerson gives us a portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings.
How to Be an Antiracist by
Kendi weaves an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science, bringing it all together with an engaging personal narrative of his own awakening to antiracism.
Invisible Man by
In the course of his wanderings from a Southern Negro college to New York's Harlem, an American black man becomes involved in a series of adventures.
The Color of Law by
Rothstein argues that de jure segregation -- laws and policy decisions passed by local, state, and federal governments -- that promoted discriminatory patterns that continue to this day.
Stamped from the Beginning by
Stamped from the Beginning uses the lives of five major American intellectuals to offer a window into the contentious debates between assimilationists and segregationists and between racists and antiracists.
The New Jim Crow by
The majority of young black men in major American cities are locked behind bars or have been labeled felons for life. Although Jim Crow laws have been wiped off the books, an astounding percentage of the African American community remains trapped in a subordinate status, much like their grandparents before them, who lived under an explicit system of control.
These Truths by
Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation, an urgently needed reckoning with the beauty and tragedy of American history.
When They Call You a Terrorist by
In this meaningful, empowering account of survival, strength, and resilience, Patrisse Cullors and asha bandele seek to change the culture that declares innocent black life expendable.
13th (Netflix Feature) - Combining archival footage with testimony from activists and scholars, director Ava DuVernay's examination of the U.S. prison system looks at how the country's history of racial inequality drives the high rate of incarceration in America.
Cooked - Chicago suffered the worst heat disaster in U.S history in 1995, when 739 residents-mostly elderly and black-died over the course of one week. Cooked links the deadly heat wave's devastation back to the underlying manmade disaster of structural racism and delves deep into one of our nation's biggest growth industries: Disaster Preparedness.
Evolution of a Criminal - What does a criminal look like to you? For too many in America, it's unquestioningly a Black man. In the award-winning documentary Evolution of a Criminal, Darius Clark Monroe turns the camera on himself in order to present a more accurate image of one African American man against the backdrop of this country’s ongoing criminalization of his peers.
Strong Island (Netflix Feature) - The forces of family, grief and racial injustice converge in this Oscar-nominated documentary exploring the murder of filmmaker Yance Ford's brother, William Ford.
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