Recently, someone asked me how to learn more about racism and US history. Here are movies, books and links those joining me in Alabama considered as they prepared for this journey, many of which may have already read or seen:
Books
Stony the Road by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
Unexampled Courage by Richard Gergel
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson (also a movie)
Caste by Isabelle Wilkerson
Movies/PBS Series
PBS Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
The Hate U Give (also a
