Black History Month Resources
February 2023 is Black History Month. Black health and wellness is this year's theme.
Below you will find a list of links to resources and educational materials on the Black American experience.
Living Lutheran of the ELCA is celebrating Black History Month with Talks at the Desk
Women of the ELCA Study and Engagement as Devotion During Black History Month
Essential Reading - Black History Books:
How We Fight for Our Lives, by Saeed Jones
The Warmth of Other Suns, by Isabel Wilkerson
Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X, by Les Payne and Tamara Payne
The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., by Peniel Joseph
A Black Women's History of the United States, by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross
Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots, by Morgan Jerkins
The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation, by Anna Malaika Tubbs
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019, by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson
The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
Essential Black History Documentaries:
Who Killed Malcolm X? (2020)
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (2011)
I Am Not Your Negro (2017)
13th (2016)
Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans (2008)
The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (2017)
A Ballerina's Tale (2015)
The Legend: The Bessie Coleman Story (2018)