Black History Month Resources
Books
- Between the World and Me (Ta-Nehisi Coates)
- Beloved (Toni Morrison)
- IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas (Gabrielle Tayac)
- Cofounding the Color Line: The Indian-Black Experience in North America (James F. Brooks)
- Black Indian: A Memoir (Shonda Buchanan)
- Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom (Tiya Miles)
- Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage (William Loren Katz)
- When Brer Rabbit Meets Coyote: African-Native American Literature (Jonathan Brennan)
Poetry
- African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song (A Library of America Anthology) (Kevin Young)
- Who’s Afraid of Black Indians? (Shonda Buchanan)
- The Hill We Climb and Other Poems (Amanda Gorman)
- And Still I Rise (Maya Angelou)
- I hope this reaches her in time(r.h. sin)
- The Rose That Grew From Concrete (Tupac Shakur)
- The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (Langston Hughes, Arnold Rampersad)
Online Publications
Articles
- 22 Black-Led Nonprofits Making History
- Celebrating Afro-Indigenous voice (Indian Country Today)
- Just A Bunch of Amazing Queer Black and Indigenous Artists to Support (Junkee.)
- 99 Black Women-Owned Brands and Entrepreneurs to Support Now and Always (Create & Cultivate)
- 15 Up-and-Coming Black Directors Set to Shape the Future of Hollywood (Rotten Tomatoes)
- 26 Black American You Don’t Know But Should (The Oprah Magazine)
- African-American Trailblazers in Medicine & Medical Research (USF Health Morsani College of Medicine)
- 12 Black American Pioneers Who Change Healthcare (Everyday Health)
- 40 movies to watch and learn from during Black History Month — or anytime (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Other Resources
- Smithsonian National Museum of African American Culture & History
- IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas (Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian)
- 13 destinations for African-American history and culture (National Geographic)
- Art by African Americans (Smithsonian American Art Museum)
Videos
- Afro Native Narratives: Black Indians Identity
- Afro-Indigeneity on the Way to a Post-Settler World with Dr. Kyle T. Mays and Amber Starks (University of Michigan Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs)
- The Black Indigenous Afro Indigenous Experience (Native Arts and Cultures Foundation)
Artists, Writers, Musicians
- Kenturah Davis (IG: @kenturah)
- YoYo Lander (IG: @yoyolander)
- Paige Pettibon (black, white, and Salish (from the Confederated Salish and Kootenei Tribes))
- Laci Jordan (IG: @solacilike)
- Kaya Joan (Vincentian, Kanienkéha:ka, Irish, Jamaican)
- Sota Scowi Designs (IG: @sotascowidesigns)
- Joelle Joyner (Afro-Kauwets’a:ka/Cherokee) (IG: @jyotiart)
- Amy Stretten
- Famous Black Artists
- Read BIPOC: A List of Books by Black, Indigenous and/or People of Color Writers (Art for Ourselves)
- Princess Nokia (Teen Vogue)
- Storme Webber (Sugpiaq / Black / Choctaw)
- Brit Reed (Choctaw/Black) (IG: @nitaohoyo)
