Books

• Poetry
  • I Am the Darker Brother: The Anthology of Modern Poems by Negro Americans
  • Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems by Alice Walker
  • Black Pow-Wow: Jazz Poems by Ted Joans
  • Aloneness by Gwendolyn Brooks
  • Hard Times Require Furious Dancing by Alice Walker
  • The Poems of Langston Hughes (listened through the vinyl version, read by Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis)
• Novels, Autobiographies, Essays, Etc.
  • Wild Women Don't Wear No Blues: Black Women Writers on Love, Men and Sex
  • Sassafras, Cypress and Indigo by Ntozake Shange
  • The Ways of White Folks by Langston Hughes
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
  • Passing by Nella Larsen
  • I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala by Rigoberta Menchú
  • The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
  • The Street by Ann Petry
  • With My Mind on Freedom by Angela Davis
  • Being Black: Aboriginal Cultures in 'Settled' Australia
  • History of the Blues: The Roots, the Music, the People from Charley Patton to Robert Cray by Francis Davis
  • Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
  • Jambalaya : The Natural Woman's Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals by Luisah Teish (a beautiful book of afro-american beliefs, folk wisdom, rituals and music)
  • Raw Pearl by Pearl Bailey
  • Sula by Toni Morrison
  • Arnt I a Woman?: Female Slaves in the Plantation South by Deborah Gray White
  • White Girls by Hilton Als
  • Bailey's Cafe by Gloria Naylor
  • Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
  • The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings by Olaudah Equiano
  • Black Indians : A Hidden Heritage by William Loren Katz
  • Tumbling by Diane McKinney-Whetstone
  • Coffee Will Make You Black by April Sinclair
  • Ain't I a Woman : Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks
  • Rootwork: Using the Folk Magick of Black America for Love, Money and Success
• Kids
  • Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker by Patricia Hruby Powell
  • Dizzy by Jonah Winter
  • Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan

Movies

• beautiful, heartfelt, fun yet underrated, hardly ever mentioned
  • Potrait of Jason (1967)
  • Crooklyn (1994)
  • Personal Problems (1980)
  • Passing Through (1977)
  • Kirikou and the Sorceress (1998)
  • Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993)
  • Paris is Burning (1990)
  • Chi-Raq (2015)
  • Coonskin (1975)
  • Down in the Delta (1998)
  • Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? (1967)
  • A Band Called Death (2012)
  • Bande de filles (2014)
  • The Harder They Come (1972)
  • Do the Right Thing (1989)
  • Dirty Computer (2018)
  • Sarafina! (1992)
  • Black Girl (1966)
  • Daughters of the Dust (1991)
  • Pariah (2011)
  • Ethnic Notions (1986)
  • Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. (1992)
  • To Sir, with Love (1967)
  • A Well-Spent Life (1971)
  • 4 Little Girls (1997)
  • Entre le murs (2008)
  • Support the Girls (2018)
  • Mo' Better Blues (1990)
• Classics
  • To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
  • Black Panthers (1968)
  • Moonlight (2016)
  • She's Gotta Have It (1986)
  • The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (2011)
  • Sorry to Bother You (2018)
  • Boyz n the Hood (1991)
  • The Color Purple (1985)
  • The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019)
  • The Hate U Give (2018)
  • B.A.P.S. (1997)
  • Get Out (2017)
  • I Am Not Your Negro (2016)
  • Fruitvale Station (2013)
  • The Great Debaters (2007)
  • The Help (2011)
  • The Death and Life of Martha P. Johnson (2017)
  • Dolemite is My Name (2019)
  • Jackie Brown (1997)
  • The Night of the Living Dead (1968)
  • Dope (2015)
  • Lemonade (2016)
  • Hair Love (2019)
  • The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
  • Waiting to Exhale (1995)

TV

• In Living Color
• Pose
• Chewing Gum
• Atlanta
• Hey Moanie!
• She's Gotta Have It
• Dear White People
• The Boo Crew
• Craig of the Creek
• Soul Train
• My Wife & Kids
• A Different World
• Motown Magic
• The Boondocks
• Everybody Hates Chris
• When They See Us
• Living Single

Music

• Gamechanger albums
  • Ptah, The El Daoud by Alice Coltrane
  • Portrait of Sammy Davis album
  • Sylvester
  • Donny Hathaway Live!
  • For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf
  • Talking Book by Stevie Wonder
  • Birds And The Bee9 by Sampa the Great
  • What's Going On by Marvin Gaye
  • Everything is Beautiful and 1992 by Princess Nokia
  • Ibeyi and Ash by Ibeyi
  • Whitney Houston self-titled album
  • Pieces of a Man and Free Will by Gil Scott-Heron
  • Freedom Flight by Shuggie Otis
  • Mama's Gun by Erykah Badu
  • Maggot Brain and Cosmic Slop by Funkadelic
  • Here is by Barbara Lynn
  • Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
  • Aretha Now by Aretha Franklin
  • Look Out For #1 by Brothers Johnson
  • Testing by A$AP Rocky
  • Witch's self-titled album
  • Eartha Kitt
  • Awaken, My Love! by Childish Gambino
  • Silk & Soul and Nina Simone At Town Hall by Nina Simone
  • The Dock of the Bay by Otis Redding
  • 1999 by Prince
  • Perfect Angel by Minnie Riperton
  • 3 Feet High And Rising by De La Soul
  • What Color is Love? by Terry Callier
  • They Say I'm Different and self-titled album by Betty Davis
  • Bitches Brew by Miles Davis

Others

• Nina Simone on what freedom is like
• David Bowie's criticism towards lack of black artists on TV

so much more