Listen, watch and read

• A Raisin in the Sun (1961) Dir: Daniel Petrie 
• To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) Dir: Robert Mulligan 
• Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967) Dir: Stanley Kramer 
• Burning an Illusion (1981) Dir: Menelik Shabazz 
• Do The Right Thing (1989) Dir: Spike Lee 
• Amistad (1997) Dir: Steven Spielberg 
• Babymother (1998) Dir: Julian Henriques 
• Ali (2001) Dir: Michael Mann 
• Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005) Dir: Darren Grant 
• 12 Years a Slave (2013) Dir: Steve McQueen 
• 42 (2013) Dir: Brian Helgeland 
• Belle (2013) Dir: Amma Asante 
• The Butler (2013) Dir: Lee Daniels 
• The Stuart Hall Project (2013) Dir: John Akomfrah 
• Girlhood (2014) Dir: Céline Sciamma 
• Selma (2014) Dir: Ava DuVernay 
• Timbuktu (2014) Dir: Abderrahmane Sissako 

• Someone Had to Do It by Amber and Danielle Brown
• Black Candle Women by Diane Marie Brown
• Dazzling by Chikodili Emelumadu
• You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
• Maame by Jessica George
• Rosewater by Liv Little
• Small Worlds by Caleb Azumah Nelson
• River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer
• Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead
• Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson

These titles are available in digital format only:

• Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo
• Rootless by Krystle Zara Appiah
• Promise Boys by Nick Brooks
• The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa by Stephen Buoro
• Homebodies by Tembe Denton-Hurst
• Bloodmarked by Tracy Deonn
• Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby
• All Your Children, Scattered by Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse
• Queen of Exiles by Vanessa Riley

Adult non-fiction

• What Are You Doing Here?: My Autobiography by Floella Benjamin
• Reclaiming by Yewande Biala
• Angela Y. Davis: An Autobiography by Angela Y. Davis
• Finding Me by Viola Davis
• A Visible Man by Edward Enninful
• America Made Me a Black Man by Boyah J. Farah
• Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery by Herb Frazier
• Finding Home: A Windrush Story by Alford Dal Gardner
• American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men who Became America’s First Paramedics by Kevin Hazzard
• Rising to the Surface by Lenny Henry
• Black Girl, No Magic by Kimberly McIntosh
• Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation by Kris Manjapra
• All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles
• Black Sheep: A Story of Rural Racism, Identity and Hope by Sabrina Pace-Humphreys
• Windrush: 75 Years of Modern Britain by Mike Phillips
• His Name is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Robert Samuels
• How (Not) to be Strong by Alex Scott
• Empire Windrush: Reflections on 75 Years of the Black British Experience by Onyekachi Wambu
• This Thread of Gold: A Celebration of Black Womanhood by Catherine West
• CLR James: A Life Beyond the Boundaries by John Williams

• Amari and the Great Game by B.B. Alston 
• The Boy with Wings by Lenny Henry 
• The Breakfast Club Adventures: The Beast Beyond the Fence by Marcus Rashford 
• Elemental Detectives by Patrice Lawrence
• The Good Turn by Sharna Jackson 
• Granny Came Here on the Empire Windrush by Patrice Lawrence 
• Jabari Tries by Gaia Cornwall 
• Journey Back to Freedom: The Olaudah Equiano Story by Catherine Johnson
• Joyful, Joyful: Stories Celebrating Black Voices by Dapo Adeola 
• Mia and the Lightcasters by Janelle McCurdy
• Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun by Tola Okogwu 
• Our Story starts in Africa by Patrice Lawrence 
• Space Detectives: Extra Weird Creatures by Mark Powers and Dapo Adeola
• Too Small Tola Gets Tough by Atinuke 
• We Sang Across the Sea: The Empire Windrush and Me by Benjamin Zephaniah
• Wondrous Prune by Ellie Clements 

• Amazing Artists: Black Artistic Icons Who Changed the World by J.P. Miller and Chellie Carroll
• Black and British by David Olusoga
• Black in Time by Alison Hammond 
• Happy Here: 10 Stories from Black British Authors and Illustrators by Sharna Jackson (and others)
• Harriet Tubman by Maria Isabel Sanchez-Vegara
• Legacies: Black British Pioneers by L Nargee 
• My Skin, Your Skin by Laura Henry-Allain 
• Story of Britain’s Black Airmen by K.N. Chimbiri 
• Timelines from Black History: Leaders, Legends, Legacies by DK Publishing
• Women who Led the Way: Great Explorers and Adventurers by Mick Manning and Brita Granstrom 

• Beka Lamb by Zee Edgell 
• Endgame by Malorie Blackman 
• Kemosha of the Caribbean by Alex Wheatle
• Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
• Merciless Ones by Namina Forna 
• Needle by Patrice Lawrence
• Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salamm
• Soul of the Deep by Natasha Bowen
• When Our Worlds Collided by Danielle Jawando