LibGuides: Black History Month 2021: Multimedia

Podcasts for Adults

Nice White Parents
A new series debuting 7/30 about building a better school system, and what gets in the way of that.
Teaching Hard History
From Teaching Tolerance and host Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Teaching Hard History shares the lessons we should have learned in school--and how to teach them to our students. Leading scholars and educators are featured in various episodes. An excellent series, highly recommended for all educators, not just history teachers.
1619
Four hundred years ago, a ship carrying enslaved Africans arrived in the English colony of Virginia. This audio series examines the long shadow of that fateful moment.
Code Switch
Hosted by journalists of color, this podcast tackles the subject of race head-on. The hosts explore how it impacts every part of society — from politics and pop culture to history, sports and everything in between.
Teaching While White
TWW wants to have conversations about assumptions about whiteness: what they are, how they impact our students, and how we can confront them to promote racial literacy.
About Race
A lively multiracial, interracial conversation about the ways we can’t talk, don’t talk, would rather not talk, but intermittently, fitfully, embarrassingly do talk about culture, identity, politics, power, and privilege in our pre-post-yet-still-very-racial America.
Pod Save the People
Organizer and activist DeRay Mckesson explores news, culture, social justice, and politics with analysis from fellow activists Brittany Packnett and Sam Sinyangwe and writer Dr. Clint Smith III.
The Stoop
Hosts Leila Day and Hana Baba start conversations and provide professionally-reported stories about what it means to be black and how we talk about blackness.
Seeing White
Recent events have turned a challenging spotlight on White people, and Whiteness, in the United States. This series explores what it means to be White.
Miseducation
The Miseducation podcast gives high school student interns a microphone to report on the inequities they see in their schools.

Podcasts for Kids

Podcasts for Kids
Podcasts for kids featuring Black storytellers, authors, poets, activists, musicians, and leaders, recommended by School Library Journal.
NPR Student Podcast Challenge

Documentary Films

13th
An examination of how racial inequality drives the high rate of incarceration in America. Currently FREE on youtube.

King in the Wilderness
Chronicles the final chapters of Martin Luther King Jr.’s life. Currently FREE on youtube.
I am Not Your Negro
A documentary narrated by Samuel L. Jackson and inspired by James Baldwin's unfinished memoir. Available via streaming services.

Feature Films

Just Mercy
A drama based on the life work of civil rights attorney Bryan Stevenson. Available via streaming services.
If Beale Street Could Talk
After her fiance is falsely imprisoned, a pregnant African-American woman sets out to clear his name and prove his innocence. Available via streaming services.
The Hate U Give
Starr Carter is constantly switching between two worlds: the poor, mostly black, neighborhood where she lives and the rich, mostly white, prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Available via streaming services.

Series

Reconstruction: America After The Civil War
This 4-hour documentary series explores the transformative years following the American Civil War, when the nation struggled to rebuild itself in the face of profound loss, massive destruction, and revolutionary social change.
When They See Us
Five teens from Harlem become trapped in a nightmare when they're falsely accused of a brutal attack in Central Park. Based on the true story. In four parts.
The Watchman
Loosely based on the1980s graphic novel, the Watchmen is an HBO alternate history superhero 9-episode series that explores the aftermath of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre.