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BLACK LITERATURE/MOVIE RECCOMMENDED LIST

hi guys! heres a recommended reading/watch list of black movies and books! stuff important to our history or providing cultural context :) some of my favorites are on here like raisin in the sun, and native son! and 12 years a slave, that was such a good movie. :3 i hope you guys enjoy some of the things i reccomend !!! please remember these are just MY reccomendations and you are absolutely free to add more, or read/watch less.

here is the list for those who cant read images:

BLACK LITERATURE:

Kindred, Octavia Butler

Hunger: A Memoir of (my) Body, Roxane Gay

contains rape

Native Son, Richard Wright

Contains rape and murder

Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison

The Autobiography of Malcolm X: as Told to Alex Haley, Malcolm X & Alex Haley

Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston

Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry

Brown Girl Dreaming, Jacqueline Woodson (YA)

Fire Shut Up In My Bones, Charles M. Blow

LGBT themes, rape, segregation

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou

BLACK MOVIES

12 years a slave (2013)

The Help (2011)

Love and Basketball (2000)

Precious (2009)

For Colored Girls (2010)

Are We Done Yet/There Yet (2007)

Nutty Professor (1996)

Get Out (2017)

Black Panther (2018)

Boyz in the Hood (1991)

BlacKkKlansman (2018)

Dope (2015)

Fences (2016)

Moonlight (2016)

13th (2016)