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