Education is a powerful tool. Here are books, articles, and documentaries to deepen your understanding of reparations and Black historical truth.
Books & Articles
- The Color of Law – by Richard Rothstein, Explores how government policy created segregation.
- What is Owed – by Nikole Hannah-Jones, Gretchen Whitmer, & Angelo Bassi, An urgent call for reparations and justice.
- The Case for Reparations – by Ta-Nehisi Coates, A landmark article on historic redress.
- Barracoon – by Zora Neale Hurston, A firsthand account of one of the last survivors of the slave trade.
- Slave Ship: A Human History – by Marcus Rediker, A searing account of the transatlantic slave trade.
Videos & Documentaries
- The Cost of Inheritance (PBS) — A documentary exploring the legacy of slavery and reparations in America.
- 13th (Netflix/YouTube Trailer) — Ava DuVernay’s searing analysis of mass incarceration and systemic racism as the evolution of slavery.
- The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross — A six-part documentary series by Henry Louis Gates Jr., tracing 500 years of Black history.