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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