The Dominion Post has compiled read, watch and listen lists, based on recommendations from multiple sources — including the WVU Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Cassie Rattray (@radicallove.co.uk on Instagram, @CassieRattray on Twitter), the Zinn Education Project and NPR —to help better understand the black experience and move the conversation about diversity, equity and inclusion forward.
Books
- “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” by Michelle Alexander
- “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism” by Robin J. DiAngelo
- “How to Be an Antiracist” by Ibram X. Kendi
- “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nahisi Coates
- “Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood” by Trevor Noah
- “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race” by Beverly Daniel Tatum
Movies
- “13th” (Netflix)
- “Fruitvale Station” (Netflix)
- “If Beal Street Could Talk (Amazon)
- “I Am Not Your Negro” (Amazon)
- “When the Levees Broke/If God is Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise” (HBO)
- “The Hate U Give” (Amazon)
Podcasts
- “Code Switch” (NPR)
- “1619” (NYT)
- “This American Life” (Chicago Public Media) — Episodes: 648: “Unteachable Moment;” 557: “Birds and Bees, Act Two;” 708: “Here, Again;” 512: “House Rules” and so many more
- “The Stoop” with Leila Day and Hana Baba
- “The Racist Sandwich,” a podcast “about food, race, gender, and class”
- “Witness History: Witness Black History” (BBC World Service)
