Hastings Public SchoolsISD #200

Here are some suggestions of movies, podcasts and Black-owned businesses you may engage with.  Book ideas can be found on our "virtual bookshelf".

Black History Month topics (these will be curated as they are shared):

•  February 1: Opening Remarks
•  February 3: Carter G. Woodson
•  February 5: Henrietta Lacks and HeLa cells
•  February 9: Claudette Colvin
•  February 11: Redlining, De Facto and De Jure practices
•  February 16: Black-eyed peas:  A New Year's tradition born of slavery
•  February 18: Katherine Johnson
•  February 22: Cultural appreciation vs. Cultural appropriation
•  February 24: Black art
•  February 26: Amanda Gorman
  

Movies and Documentaries:

• How to be an Antiracist (an interview with Dr. Kendi)
• Hidden Figures
• Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (available on Netflix)
• 13th (available on Netflix)
• Miss Virginia (available on Netflix)
• Let's Talk about Race
• Time: The Kalief Browder Story (Netflix)
• Crack: Cocaine, Corruption, & Conspiracy (Netflix)
• Jim Crow of the North (PBS)
• American Skin (Prime Video)
• These films can be accessed using your public library card:
  • Goin' to Chicago
  • Slavery by Another Name
  • Freedom Summer
  • Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
  • I am Not Your Negro
  • Race: The Power of an Illusion

Podcasts:

• Historically Black
• School Colors
• Witness History
• The Stoop
• Code Switch
• In the Heat of the Night
• Get Out
• The Nod
• Jemele Hill is Unbothered
• Everyday Black Men
• 1619
• Seeing White
• How to Call People In (Instead of Calling Them Out) | Loretta Ross

Businesses:

• Where to Support Black-Owned Businesses in the Twin Cities (MSP Magazine)
• How to support Black-owned businesses in Minnesota (Kare 11) 

Articles:

• Speaking Up without Tearing Down