Black History Month is over but we can continue to honor Black voices and perspectives. We can put practice to something learned in February, share stories, and continue to lift up Black authors, thinkers, and movement makers and intentionally diversify our bookshelves, lives, and communities throughout the year.
Here are resources to enjoy and learn from, to help encourage discussions and greater understanding. And be encouraged to seek out different perspectives within realms that already interest you. History, art, music, interior design, architecture, etc. … find Black voices working in those spaces to read, follow, enjoy and learn from. Find more resources compiled last year by our Presbytery here.
Local and Online Resources:
The Avery Center, Lowcountry Digital History Initiative, Black Liturgist, Cocoa Gospels
Podcasts:
1619, Seeing White, Everything Happens episode with Bishop Michael Curry, Unlocking Us episodes with Ibram X. Kendi and Austin Channing Brown, Floodlines, Intersectionality Matters, Throughline, and She Speaks Too
Documentaries:
The Black Church, 13th, I Am Not Your Negro, Whose Streets, LA92, Teach Us All, Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
Books:
The Color of Compromise by Jemar Tisby
I'm Still Here by Austin Channing Brown
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Jackie Robinson: A Spiritual Biography by Michael Long
Denmark Vesey’s Garden by Ethan J. Kyle and Blain Roberts
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Gospel of Freedom ( Letter from Birmingham Jail) by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
The Power of Love: Sermons, Reflections, and Wisdom to Uplift and Inspire by Bishop Michael Curry
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Sister Outsider Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Recommended Books for Tweens and Teens
Children’s books:
Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña
Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi
The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson