Celebrating Black History Month
MSMC Celebrates Black History Month
As an ongoing celebration of Black History Month, we wanted to highlight a few books, films, podcasts, and more that we recommend to the campus community. Items available in Kaplan Library are linked (in blue) below.
Books
Americanah
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Born a Crime
by Trevor Noah
Children of Blood and Bone
by Tomi Adeyemi
Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities
by Craig Steven Wilder
Farming While Black
by Leah Penniman
The Half has Never been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
by Edward E. Baptist
The Hate U Give
by Angie Thomas
(see the link to the film version below)
Just Mercy
by Bryan Stevenson
Kindred
by Octavia Butler
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History
Vashti Harrison
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander
River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom
by Walter Johnson
Stokely: A Life
by Peniel E. Joseph
Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism
by Stokely Carmichael
The Undeground Railroad
by Colson Whitehead
The Water Dancer
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Films
Black Panther
Nominated for Best Picture (2019); won Oscar for Best Costume Design, Best Original Music Score, Best Production Design
Hair Love
Oscar winner for Best Animated Short Film
The Hate U Give
(see the link to the book version above)
Hidden Figures
Nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay (2017), Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress
I Am Not Your Negro
Nominated for Best Documentary Feature (2016); won BAFTA for Best Documentary
Just Mercy
Moonlight
Oscar winner for Best Picture (2017)
Selma
Nominated for Best Picture (2015); won for Best Original Song
Podcasts
Code Switch
(NPR)
Ear Hustle
(Radiotopia)
Fresh Air Interview with Bryan Stevenson