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Films and Documentaries
  • Centenary of the Tulsa Race Massacre
    Berkeley Conversations. A moderated panel discussion to commemorate the centenary of the Tulsa Race Massacre, which occurred in 1921 in the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma in an area known as “Black Wall Street.” Although the massacre is not found in most American history books, it is widely regarded as one of the most terrifying events of racial violence to occur in the US. Armed, white mobs murdered hundreds of Blacks and set fire to a prosperous Black area, the Greenwood District, both displacing and economically devastating thousands of Black residents. While many of the exact details are unknown, recent excavations to locate mass burial sites and interviews with descendants of Black residents are shedding more light onto these events.
  • 400th Commemoration of Resistance to Slavery and Injustice film series(link is external)
    Berkeley Library
  • 13th
    A Netflix documentary exposing racial inequality within the criminal justice system
  • True Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight for Equality
    HBO Now
  • The Kalief Browder Story
    This six-episode docuseries recounts how 16-year-old Kalief Browder was accused of stealing a backpack, but went on to spend three years in prison because his family couldn’t afford his bail and the system had no place for him. Browder spent two of his three years in solitary confinement on Rikers Island without ever being convicted of a crime and died by suicide two years after his release.
  • I Am Not Your Negro
    Documentary envisioning the book James Baldwin was never able to finish.
  • The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
    A treasure trove of 16mm material shot by Swedish filmmakers, after languishing in a basement of a TV station for 30 years, into an irresistible mosaic of images, music, and narration chronicling the evolution one of our nation's most indelible turning points, the Black Power movement. Featuring candid interviews with the movement's most explosive revolutionary minds, including Angela Davis, Bobby Seale, Stokely Carmichael, and Kathleen Cleaver, the film explores the community, people and radical ideas of the movement. Music by Questlove and Om'Mas Keith, and commentary from and modern voices including Erykah Badu, Harry Belafonte, Talib Kweli, and Melvin Van Peebles. Available on PBS and Amazon Prime
  • The Black Panther. Vanguard of the Revolution
  • Eyes on the Prize
    The preeminent documentary series on the Civil Rights Movement. Narrated by political and civil rights leader Julian Bond, this six-part, 14-hour series covers all of the major, transformative events from 1954 to 1985, including the Montgomery bus boycott in 1954, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the birth of the Black Power Movement, and the courageous acts of the crusaders that contributed along the way.
  • Race - The Power of an Illusion
  • Cracking the Codes
    Film by World Trust (structural racism)
  • Healing Justice 
    A film by World Trust 
  • Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland
    HBO 
  • The House I Live In
    PBS. For the past 40 years, the war on drugs has resulted in more than 45 million arrests, $1 trillion dollars in government spending, and America’s role as the world’s largest jailer. Yet for all that, drugs are cheaper, purer, and more available than ever. Filmed in more than twenty states, The House I Live In captures heart-wrenching stories of those on the front lines — from the dealer to the grieving mother, the narcotics officer to the senator, the inmate to the federal judge — and offers a penetrating look at the profound human rights implications of America’s longest war.
  • The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson
    As she fights the tide of violence against trans women, activist Victoria Cruz probes the suspicious 1992 death of her friend Marsha P. Johnson. Netflix
  • Fruitvale Station
    A film with Michael B. Jordan about the killing of Oscar Grant
  • If Beale Street Could Talk
    Based on a novel by James Baldwin, this film is directed by Barry Jenkins. Available on Hulu and Amazon Prime
  • Selma
    Available on Hulu and rent on Prime Video. In 1965, an Alabama city became the battleground in the fight for suffrage. Despite violent opposition, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (David Oyelowo) and his followers pressed forward on an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, and their efforts culminated in President Lyndon Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
  • When They See Us 
    A Netflix miniseries from Ava DuVernay about the Central Park Five

Podcasts
  • The Stoop, Stories from across the Black diaspora
  • GirlTrek’s Black History Bootcamp Podcast is a 21-day walking meditation series to remember where we came from and to gather strength for the road ahead.
  • Speaking Our Truth, Podcast for Change
  • Land(ing) Back
  • Who Belongs
    Othering & Belonging Institute podcast
  • History is Gay
  • Tamarindo
    The Latinx empowerment podcast discussing politics, pop culture, and how to balance it all con calma!
  • Code Switch
    Hosted by journalists of color, our podcast tackles the subject of race head-on. We explore how it impacts every part of society — from politics and pop culture to history, sports, and everything in between. National Public Radio
  • 1619 Podcast
    New York Times
  • Hella Black
    Hella Black Podcast is an Oakland-based audio experience brought to you by Delency Parham and Blake Simons. With each episode, we hope to educate and inform our listeners on all things related to Blackness. Our podcast is important because it uplifts the voices of Black radical organizers who are doing the work in the field. Often times our narratives are not told. Both Blake and Delency are community organizers in Oakland as well as educators. They founded #PeoplesBreakfastOakland which serves the houseless population. In the wake of global white supremacy, it is important to support organizers who are in the field. 
  • All My Relations
    a podcast exploring what it means to be a Native person in 2019. To be an Indigenous person is to be engaged in relationships—relationships to land and place, to a people, to non-human relatives, and to one another, and to think through Indigeneity in all its complexities. On each episode hosts Matika Wilbur (Tulalip and Swinomish) and Adrienne Keene (Cherokee Nation), delve into a different topic facing Native peoples today, bringing in guests from all over Indian Country to offer perspectives and stories. We dive deep, play some games, laugh a lot, cry sometimes, and hope that you’ll join us on this journey together.
  • Self Evident. Asian American Stories
    Stories that reveal and reshape the social and political narratives that shape our past, present, and future. Each episode presents an in-depth story or conversation from specific communities within the Asian diaspora in America. We bring Asian American voices into the national conversation as they’ve never been heard before — across generations, across cultures, and across class. 
  • 70 Million
    A Peabody-nominated documentary podcast investigating how locals are addressing the role of jails in their backyards. Reporters travel around the country and hear from people directly impacted by encounters with jails and adjacent policies, and from those committed to reversing the negative effects on people and communities.
  • 12 Great Podcasts That Discuss Race and Racism in America
    Oprah Magazine
  • Scene on Radio. Seeing White
    Just what is going on with white people? Police shootings of unarmed African Americans. Acts of domestic terrorism by white supremacists. The renewed embrace of raw, undisguised white-identity politics. Unending racial inequity in schools, housing, criminal justice, and hiring. Some of this feels new, but in truth, it’s an old story. Why? Where did the notion of “whiteness” come from? What does it mean? What is whiteness for? Host and producer John Biewen took a deep dive into these questions, along with an array of leading scholars and regular guest Dr. Chenjerai Kumanyika, in this fourteen-part documentary series, released between February and August 2017. The series editor is Loretta Williams.
  • john powell on rejecting white supremacy, embracing belonging- Berkeley Talks
  • Bryan Stevenson on how America can heal
    The Ezra Klein Show (Podcast)
  • Racism’s Punishing Reach
    The Daily, New York Times
  • A Decade of Watching Black People Die
    Code Switch podcast
  • ‘Notice the Rage; Notice the Silence’ – On Being podcast with Resmaa Menakem June 2020 (race, trauma and the body)
  • We Can't Recover From This History Until We Deal With It (January 30, 2019 | 6 min)
    video produced by Harvard Law with Bryan Stevenson, lawyer and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, Stevenson speaks to our country's need to talk about racism. 
  • West Coast Water Justice
    A podcast about grassroots water justice in the Western United States. We interview experts about their local watersheds and how the health of our water impacts every facet of our lives and future generations.
  • Steps to Autism Acceptance Podcast
    We join organizations that aspire to autism acceptance more than awareness, and we understand acceptance as an action
  • About Race

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