Click through the listed books, speeches, podcasts, and films to continue celebrating (Re)Claiming Black Joy. Some resources are also available through the Clark Library and/or can be requested through Summit.
Email oiedi@up.edu with your suggestions to add to the list!
A Garden of Black Joy: Global Poetry from the Edges of Liberation and Living, edited by Keno Evol
Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
Love in Colour: Mythical Tales From Around the World, Retold by Bolu Babalola
This One Sky Day by Leone Ross
Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo
Who's Loving You: Love Stories by Women of Color edited by Sareeta Domingo
Black Enough: Stories of Being Young and Black in America, edited by Ibi Zoiboi
Black Futures by Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham
Black Joy: Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration by Tracey Michae'l Lewis-Giggetts
Black is Beautiful by Kwame Brathwaite
The Black Woman in Contemporary America, Shirley Chisholm
I've Been to the Mountaintop, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
I Have a Dream, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Speech delivered at the Embassy Auditorium, Angela Davis
Another Round hosted by Heben Nigatu and Tracy Clayton
Best Friends hosted by Sasheer Zamata and Nicole Byer
Levar Burton Reads hosted by Levar Burton
Our Body Politic hosted by Farai Chideya
The Nod hosted by Brittany Luse and Eric Eddings
The Read hosted by Kid Fury and Crissle West
Snap Judgment hosted by Glynn Washington
Still Processing hosted by Wesley Morris and Jenna Wortham
Akeelah and the Bee, available to watch on Peacock
Black Panther, available to watch on Disney+
Hamilton, available to watch on Disney+
Kiki, available to watch on YouTube
(In)Visible Portraits, available to watch on Amazon Prime Video
Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse, available to watch on YouTube
Soul, available to watch on Disney+
The Lovebirds, available to watch on YouTube
The Watermelon Woman, available to watch through Clark Library
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