If you're looking for more ways to celebrate and educate yourself during Black History Month, we've compiled a list of books, podcasts, documentaries and more to help you (and your kids!) further your bridge-building journey.

We hope you enjoy this list of curated content for Black History Month. We encourage our members to support black-owned businesses and bookstores this month and year-round. The closest bookstore to visit in-person would be Wild Fig in Lexington, however there are many websites where you can purchase books online and have them shipped to your home. These websites include, but are certianly not limited to, Hakim's, Mahogany Books and The Key Bookstore.

Visiting the Classics

• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
• Native Son by Richard Wright
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Non-Fiction Reading

• The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
• Just As I Am: A Memoir by Cicely Tyson
• A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performace by Hanif Abdurraqib
• all about love by bell hooks
• Hunger by Roxane Gay
• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

Fiction Reading

Poetry and Essays

• Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
• The Source of Self-Regard by Toni Morrison
• Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans
• Vulnerable AF by Tarriona Ball
• Drinking Coffee Everywhere by ZZ Packer

Podcasts

• 1619 Project
• Code Switch
• Historically Black
• The Nod

Documentaries

• King in the Wilderness
• African American Lives from PBS
• 13th 
• I Am Not Your Negro
• They've Gotta Have Us
• Paris is Burning

For Youth & Children

• Life Doesn't Frighten Me by Maya Angelou - Ages 3 & up
• The Other Side by Jacqueline Wilson - Ages 5 & up
• The Watsons Go to Birmingham - Ages 8 & up
• Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by Carole Boston Weatherford - Ages 10 & up