Black History Month Resources
February 2023 is Black History Month. Black health and wellness is this year's theme.
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Below you will find a list of links to resources and educational materials on the Black American experience.
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Living Lutheran of the ELCA is celebrating Black History Month with Talks at the Desk
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Women of the ELCA Study and Engagement as Devotion During Black History Month
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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
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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)
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