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:

• Opening Remarks

• Carter G. Woodson

•  Henrietta Lacks and HeLa cells

• Claudette Colvin

• Redlining, De Facto and De Jure practices

• Black-eyed peas:  A New Year's tradition born of slavery

• Katherine Johnson

• Cultural appreciation vs. Cultural appropriation

•  Black art

•  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