Featured Booklists For Middle and High School Levels

The links below will take you to the reading resource of your choosing:

• Afro Latinx Titles
• Africa
• Black History
• Immigration
• Gender Identity
• Families
• LGBTQ
• Slavery and Resistance
• Women
• Grandparents and Elders

Suggested Films for Middle and High School Levels

The links below will take you to the film resource of your choosing:

• PBS Black in Latin America Henry Louis Gates, Jr. uncovers Latin America’s African roots in this four-part series.

• Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock Documentary on the life of Daisy Bates, best know for her role with the Little Rock Nine.
• Ruby Bridges The true story of Ruby Bridges, the six-year-old girl who helped to integrate the all-white schools in New Orleans.
• 13th Ava DuVernay’s in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation’s history of racial inequality.
• Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin Documentary about the life of peace, labor, and civil rights activist Bayard Rustin.
• Intersectionality 101 Learn about intersectionality with this student-friendly video from Teaching Tolerance.
• All God’s Children A political, social, and religious analysis of sexual orientation within the context of the traditional African American values of freedom, inclusion, and the Christian ethic.
• Hidden Figures Based on the story of three African-American women working at NASA who served as the brains behind the launch into orbit of astronaut John Glenn.
• Eyes on the Prize A comprehensive fourteen-part documentary history of the Civil Rights Movement.
• Sylvia Woods: “You Have to Fight for Freedom” Dramatic reading of an interview with Sylvia Woods, a pioneer in the struggle of African-American and women trade unionists, who describes why she decided not to sing the “Star Spangled Banner” at school in 1919 when she was 10 years old.
• What Happened, Miss Simone? Using never-before-heard recordings, rare archival footage and her best-known songs, this is the story of legendary singer and activist Nina Simone.

Reading For Middle and High School Educators

The links below will take you to the resource of your choosing:

• A Talk to Teachers by James Baldwin
• What ‘White Folks Who Teach in the Hood’ Get Wrong about Education interview with Dr. Chris Emdin
• Some Considerations When Working with LGBT Students of Color from GLSEN
• Making Black Lives Matter in Our Schools by the editors of Rethinking Schools
• Black Students’ Lives Matter: Building the School to Justice Pipeline by the editors of Rethinking Schools
• The Black Joy Experience Resource Guide by Jonathan Lykes and Fresco Steez. Listen to songs.
• Teaching for Black Lives published by Rethinking Schools.
• Black Like Me by Renee Watson
• A Guideline for Teaching about Controversial Topics from Morningside Center
• Happening Yesterday, Happening Tomorrow: Teaching the ongoing murders of black men by Renee Watson
• Home Buying While Brown or Black from Rethinking Mathematics Teaching Social Justice by the Numbers (Gutstein and Peterson)

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