Black Lives, Black Stories

Articles

• FBI Targets a New Generation of Black Activists
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Books

• “The Devil Finds Work” found in Collected Essays by James Baldwin (814 BAL 1998)
• How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi (305.8 KEN 2019)
• The Clansman by Thomas Dixon, Jr. (available as an E-book on BRIDGES/OverDrive with your
• Ames Public Library Card)
• The Leopard’s Spots: A Romance of the White Man’s Burden 1865-1900 by Thomas Dixon, Jr. (available as an E-book on Project Gutenberg)

Films & DVDs

• The Birth of a Nation (DVD DRAMA BIR)
• Gone With the Wind (DVD DRAMA GON)
• Selma (DVD DRAMA SEL)
• Get Out (DVD SCI-FI-GET)
• Us (DVD SCI-FI US)
• Green Book (DVD DRAMA GREEN)
• 13th (Full feature available on YouTube courtesy of Netflix)

Videos

• “Separate and Unequal”: The Last Surviving Member of the 1968 Kerner Commission on Race Riots
• “James Baldwin vs William F. Buckley: A Legendary Debate from 1965”

Resources mentioned that are not available at APL or for free online streaming:

• The Help (2011 film)
• When They See Us (Netflix)

Articles

• ABC News: Calls to defund police shine light on the school-to-prison pipeline: https://abcnews.go.com/US/calls-defund-police-shine-light-school-prison-pipeline/story?id=71195676
• Des Moines Register: Midwest among the worst place for blacks to live, new report says: https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2019/10/11/midwest-worst-place-blacks-live-new-report-economic-policy-institute-polk-county-iowa/3942582002/

Report

• State Data Center of Iowa: African Americans in Iowa, 2020: https://www.iowadatacenter.org/Publications/aaprofile2020.pdf

Podcast

• AMP Reports: In the Dark, season 2: https://features.apmreports.org/in-the-dark/season-two/

Articles

• The Guardian: Moonlight portrays black gay life in its joy, sadness, and complexity (WARNING: Spoilers): https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/oct/29/moonlight-movie-barry-jenkins-black-gay
• New York Times: 1.5 Million Missing Black Men: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/04/20/upshot/missing-black-men.html

Short film

• Barack and Curtis: Manhood, Power & Respect: https://youtu.be/H5YoS3bqk5g

Album

• Good Kid, m.A.A.d. City by Kendrick Lamar (available to stream or download on Hoopla)

Books

• Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? by Mumia Abu-Jamal (323.1196 ABU 2017)
• Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A. by Danielle Allen (305.242 ALL 2017)
• Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin (305.8 BAL 2012)
• I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown (305.896 BRO 2018)
• What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker by Damon Young (920 YOUNG D 2019)
• All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto by George M. Johnson (YA 920 JOHNSON G)