Film, Videos & Television
What you watch with your children, what they watch without you, and the media they access is a highly personal decision of caregivers and parents that we aim to respect. Below are suggestions of viewing resources to explore and discuss many of the topics addressed through this community space that span a variety of audience ages.
29 Movies, Shows, and Documentaries to Watch to Educate Yourself on Racial Injustice
Short Films
A Girl Like Me (2007), Directed by Kiri Davis, produced by Reel Works Teen Filmmaking, Media that Matters Award winner
Immersion (2009), By Richard Levien, Media that Matters Award winner
A Conversation with Native Americans on Race (2017), by Michele Stephenson and Brian Young, Op-Doc, NY Times
Documentaries
Living Undocumented: High School, College and Beyond (2013), Ben Donnellon and Tatyana Kleyn
Precious Knowledge (2012), Ari Luis Palos and Eren Isabel McGinnis
Movies
Milk
The Laramie Project
The Color Purple
Freemont, USA
Do the Right Thing
Fruitvale Station
Notes from the Field (Anna Deavere Smith's The Pipeline Project, HBO)
Real Women Have Curves
Oscars Remix: 9 Coming-of-Age Films About People Who Aren't White Males
Television & Show segments
I Love My Hair, Sesame Street
I Love My Hair (bilingual Spanish-English), Sesame Street
Change the World, Sesame Street
Incarceration Toolkit, Sesame Street
Dear White People, Netflix
The Wire, HBO
The Boondocks (animated series)
Spoken Word
Nigger Reecan Blues, Willie Perdomo
Nigger Reecan Blues, Willie Perdomo All Eyez On U, Nikki Giovanni