Anti-Racism Resources | Black Lives Matter

the impact of President Donald Trump’s rhetoric throughout his presidency, and the next steps for the nation to heal from the recent attack on American democracy.

This film interviewed co-founder Patrisse Cullors about the various forms of violence against black citizens, and why resistance is essential. A documentary by Netherlands Public Broadcasting, 2017.

The work of Malcolm X, the rise of the Black Power movement, and the future of America’s ongoing equality battles are also examined.

Winner of numerous Emmy Awards, a George Foster Peabody Award, an International Documentary Award, and a Television Critics Association Award, Eyes on the Prize is the most critically acclaimed documentary on civil rights in America. The 14-part series recounts the fight to end decades of discrimination and segregation.It is the story of the people— young and old, male and female, northern and southern—who, compelled by a meeting of conscience and circumstance, worked to eradicate a world where whites and blacks could not go to the same school, ride the same bus, vote in the same election, or participate equally in society.

The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and successive assassinations of three of his close friends--Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. At the time of Baldwin's death in 1987, he left behind only thirty completed pages of his manuscript. Now, in his incendiary new documentary, master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished.

Produced by the University of Kansas, 2008. (58 min.)

Bland’s death was quickly ruled a suicide, sparking allegations of a murder and cover-up, and turning her case and name into a rallying cry nationwide. From the Oscar®-nominated, Emmy®- and Peabody Award-winning team of directors/producers Kate Davis and David Heilbroner, Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland examines this story in depth, revealing previously unknown details. The film follows the Bland family and legal team from the first weeks after her death as they try to find out what really happened in that jail cell in Texas. Embedded with the family and their lawyers, the filmmakers tracked the story for two years, drawing on key documents, jail footage and interviews with those closest to the events.

John Meacham is a presidential historian and holds the Chair in American Presidency at Vanderbilt University.

There is also a reading by Jason Reynolds of his essay, "Between Us: A Reckoning with My Mother"