Media to celebrate Black History Month

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Carrie Mae Weems: The Kitchen Table Series

Renell Medrano



Films

  • Nickel boys 

    • Based on the 2019 novel by Colsen Whitehead, Nickel boys is a historical drama film about a brutal reformatory school in Jim Crow south. 

  • Sing Sing 

    • A 2024 movie about theater as an escape from incarceration and the confines of masculinity and jail cells, that did not get nearly enough press. 

  • Earth Mama

    • A pregnant single mother, with two children in foster care, embraces her Bay Area community as she fights to reclaim her family in this singular debut feature from filmmaker Savanah Leaf. ft DOECHII

  • Paris is Burning

    • 1990 documentary and queer staple about drag and house in New York City. Must watch.

  • Tongues Untied

    • An experimental documentary/ video essay about queer Black masculinity, shame, and the AIDS epidemic. P.S This is Renas favorite documentary of all time. 

  • One of them days

    • 2025 comedy with Keke Palmer and SZA.

  • Summer of Soul 

    • A music documentary directed by Questlove that tells the story of the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival. 

  • American Fiction

    • (based on the book Erasure) + Rena tells you to listen to Thelonius Monk (who the film is based on) with John Coltrane 1961 album

  • The Cheetah Girls

    • Epic Disney musical 

  • Let it shine

    • Tyler Williams is a teenager with a secret rap career and also a massive crush on Coco Jones. 

Clifford Prince King

Books

  • Love Poems by Nikki Giovanni 

    • A collection of poems on love of all kinds. 

  • Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth

    • Covers Algerian liberation as the first African nation to become independent from a colonial power. 

  • Dork Diaries!

  • Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger by Lama Rod Owens

    • A book to read if you, like all of us, are struggling to turn your overwhelming anger and fear into a tool of resistance and liberation. 

  • The Little Book of Race and Restorative Justice: Black Lives, Healing, and US Social Transformation Book by Fania E. Davis

    • Personal narrative and real world examples to challenge traditional frameworks for justice, must read for anyone interested in reconciliation and community.

  • Heads of the Colored People: Stories. by Nafissa Thompson-Spires

    • A collection of stories exploring black identity with a unique, moving, and darkly funny voice. 

Wangechi Mutu

Music

Shaddah Jack

Noresspect

Alice Coltrane

Thelonius Monk

Bembeya Jazz National

DJ Black Power

Mach Hommy

Victor Olaiya

Flying Lotus

Nina Simone

Blood Orange

Sister Nancy

Navy Blue

Mike

BillyWoods

Austin Peete

Romare Bearden's "Bayou Fever

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