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• The 1619 Project

  a New Origin Story

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  In late August 1619, a ship arrived in the British colony of Virginia bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival led to the barbaric and unprecedented system of American chattel slavery that would last for the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

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  Story of a black woman in the South who was born into slavery in the 1850s and lives to become a part of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.

• Black AF History

  the Un-whitewashed Story of America

  Harriot, Michael,

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  America's backstory is a whitewashed mythology implanted in our collective memory. It is the story of the pilgrims on the Mayflower building a new nation. It is George Washington's cherry tree and Abraham Lincoln's log cabin. It is the fantastic…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Black Church

  This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song

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  It chronicles the rich history of an institution at the heart of the African-American experience. Beginning with enslavement, traveling through Emancipation, Jim Crow, the Great Migration, and the civil rights movement, and ending in the present…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black History Activators

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  An important and timely collection features educational, in-depth introductions to some of the most notable and integral individuals and events that make up Black history.

• The Black Panthers

  Vanguard of the Revolution

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  The first feature-length documentary to explore the Black Panther Party, its significance to the broader American culture, its cultural and political awakening for Black people, and the painful lessons wrought when a movement derails.

• Burn, Motherf*cker, Burn!

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  On April 29, 1992, Los Angeles exploded when four police officers were acquitted in the beating of Rodney King. But the city had been smoldering for years. This provocative documentary looks at how decades of racial tensions, injustice and a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Chain-gang All-stars

  Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame,

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  She felt their eyes, all those executioners… Loretta Thurwar and Hamara “Hurricane Staxxx” Stacker are the stars of the Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a highly popular, highly controversial…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Color of Abolition

  How a Printer, a Prophet, and a Contessa Moved a Nation

  Hirshman, Linda, 1944-

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  In the crucial early years of the Abolition movement, the Boston branch of the cause seized upon the star power of the eloquent ex-slave Frederick Douglass to make its case for slaves’ freedom. Journalist William Lloyd Garrison promoted emancipation…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Color Purple

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  The heartwrenching story of a young black girl in the early 20th century who's forced into a brutal marriage and separated from her sister.

• The Color Purple

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  A story of love and resilience, “The Color Purple” is a decades-spanning tale of one woman’s journey to independence. Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds extraordinary strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.

• Driving While Black

  African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights

  Sorin, Gretchen Sullivan,

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  How the automobile fundamentally changed African American life - the true history beyond the Best Picture-winning movie. The ultimate symbol of independence and possibility, the automobile has shaped this country from the moment the first Model T…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Driving While Black

  Race, Space and Mobility in America

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  Chronicling the riveting history and personal experiences, at once liberating and challenging, harrowing and inspiring, deeply revealing and profoundly transforming, of African Americans on the road from the advent of the automobile through the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Eyes on the Prize

  America's Civil Rights Years

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  The definitive story of the civil rights era (1954-1965) from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose extraordinary actions launched a movement that changed the fabric of American life, and embodied a struggle whose reverberations are…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fruitvale Station

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  The true story of Oscar, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident who wakes up on the morning of December 31, 2008 and feels something in the air. Not sure what it is, he takes it as a sign to get a head start on his resolutions: Being a better son to his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

  McBride, James, 1957-

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  From James McBride, author of the bestselling Oprah’s Book Club pick Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird, a novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them In 1972, when workers in Pottstown,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Homebodies

  a Novel

  Denton-Hurst, Tembe,

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  Urgent, propulsive, and strikingly insightful, Homebodies is a thrilling debut novel about a young Black writer whose world is turned upside down when she loses her coveted job in media and pens a searing manifesto about racism in the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Horror Noire

  a History of Black Horror

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  Delving into a century of genre films that by turns utilized, caricatured, exploited, sidelined, and finally embraced them, this documentary traces the untold history of Black Americans in Hollywood through their connection to the horror genre.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Saw Death Coming

  a History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction

  Williams, Kidada E.,

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  From a groundbreaking scholar, a heart-wrenching reexamination of the struggle for survival in the Reconstruction-era South, and what it cost. The story of Reconstruction is often told from the perspective of the politicians, generals, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Inspection

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  In Elegance Bratton's deeply moving film inspired by his own story, a young, gay Black man, rejected by his mother and with few options for his future, decides to join the Marines, doing whatever it takes to succeed in a system that would cast him…Read moreRead more of this annotation