Each February, National Black History Month serves as both a celebration and a powerful reminder that Black history is American history, Black culture is American culture, and Black stories are essential to the ongoing story of America — our faults, our struggles, our progress, and our aspirations.
In honor of Black History Month 2022, we’re sharing a compiled list of our community’s and staff’s favorite resources to learn about Black history, culture, and experience.
We invite you to engage in this celebration this February and all year!
Social
- 28 Reasons to Love Black St. Louis – IG: @fortheculturestl
Podcasts
Books
- Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States
- Caste
- The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Government Segregated America
- The New Jim Crow
- How to Be an Antiracist
- White Fragility
- Waking up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race
- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
- So You Want to Talk about Race
- Stamped from the Beginning
Documentaries
- 13th
- Reconstruction – America After the Civil War
- When They See Us
- Becoming
- I Am Not Your Negro
- Dark Girls
- Whose Streets?
Films & Television
- 12 Years A Slave
- Hidden Figures
- Just Mercy
- The Great Debaters
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- Underground
- The Hate U Give
- Seven Seconds
TEDTalks
- The Lie That Invented Racism
- We Need to Talk About an injustice
- The Danger of a Single Story
- The difference between being “not racist” and antiracist
Articles/Blogs
- What is Juneteenth?
- The Case For Reparations
- Letter From Birmingham Jail
- Anti-racism resources
- A guide to how you can support marginalized communities.
- Robin DiAngelo: How ‘white fragility’ supports racism and how whites can stop it