List contributed by NCSU Libraries. Selections chosen by Nubian Message Staff.
NCSU Libraries has compiled a list of resources created by and about black activists, writers, poets and filmmakers. Each these are available to the NC State community at NCSU Libraries. We’ve highlighted some of the resources below.
Books
Behind the Dream: The Making of the Speech That Transformed a Nation
Written by Clarence Benjamin Jones and Stuart Connelly
Bad Feminist: Essays
Written by Roxane Gay
Go Tell It On the Mountain
Written by James Baldwin
Wild Seed
Written by Octavia Butler
Men We Reaped: A Memoir
Written by Jesmyn Ward
Movies & Documentaries
Whose Streets?
Directed by Sabaah Folayan
Malcolm X
Directed by Spike Lee
The Black American Experience: Mary McLeod Bethune – Champion for Education
Directed by Brian Stewart
This Side of the River: Self-Determination and Survival in the Oldest Black Town in America
By the North Carolina Language and Life Project
Chisholm ’72: Unbought and Unbossed
Directed by Shola Lynch
