Resources

Websites

• New Hampshire Black History: A wealth of information from, seacoastnh.com, on New Hampshire’s black history, and those who helped shape it, including Valerie Cunningham & Lionel Washington Johnson.

• The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute has an excellent collection of sermons, essays, biographical info & more.

Books

1. Kwame Alexander, Light for the World to See
2. Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad
3. Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
4. Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy
5. James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
6. Cornel West, The Radical King
7. bell hooks, Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood
8. Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow
9. Emmanuel Acho, Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man
10. Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist
11. Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racists Ideas in America
12. Richard Wright, Native Son
13. Malcolm X and Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
14. Mahogany Browne, Woke Baby
15. Robin DiAngelo, White Fragility
16. Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
17. Christopher Paul Curtis, The Watson’s Go to Birmingham
18. James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk
19. Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law
20. John Lewis and Mike D’Orso, Walking with the Wind
21. Ruby Bridges, Through my Eyes
22. Jennifer L. Eberhardt, PhD, Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice that Shapes What we See, Think, and Do
23. Debby Irving, Waking up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race
24. Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

Films

1. Malcolm X
2. Twelve Years a Slave
3. Black Panther
4. Just Mercy
5. When They See Us
6. If Beale Street Could Talk
7. Boyz in the Hood
8. I Am Not Your Negro
9. Let the Fire Burn
10. The Central Park Five
11. Get On Up
12. 42
13. Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
14. Detroit
15. Dear White People
16. Precious
17. Loving
18. Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
19. Whose Streets
20. Fruitvale Station
21. Fences
22. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Chadwick Boseman)
23. Amazing Grace
24. Hidden Figures
25. Selma
26. Blackkklansman (Spike Lee)
27. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
28. Da Five Bloods
29. Harriet
30. The Butler
31. Get Out
32. Remember the Titans
33. The Help

Music

1. “Fight the Power” (Public Enemy)
2. “Hell You Talmbout”-Janelle One (“Say His Name”)
3. “Baltimore” (Prince/Eryn A. Kane)
4. “This is America” (Childish Gambino)
5. “Black Man” (Stevie Wonder)
6. “Birmingham Sunday”(Joan Baez)
7. “Mississippi Goddamn” (Nina Simone)
8. “Strange Fruit” (Billy Holiday)
9. “Say It Loud — I’m Black and I’m Proud” (James Brown)
10. “Reagan”(Killer Mike)
11. “Black Rage”(Lauryn Hill)
12. “We Shall Not Be Moved” (Mavis Staples)
13. “Inner City Blues Make Me Wanna Holler” (Marvin Gaye)
14. “Death of Emmet Till” (Bob Dylan)
15. “Stand Up” (Cynthia Erivo)
16. “A Change Is Gonna Come” (Sam Cooke)
17. “Oh Freedom” (The Golden Gospel Singers”
18. “Which Side Are You On?” (The Freedom Singers)
19. “Ball of Confusion (That’s What the World is Today)” (The Temptations)
20. “I Wonder If Heaven Got a Ghetto” (Tupac)