The Plug team is making a commitment to educate ourselves and to help our network learn more about important facts and narratives related to racism in America, particularly for Black America.
Our team curated a list of media resources to aid in this pursuit of knowledge and understanding, listed in no particular order:
Books
- How to Be an Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi
- So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ljeoma Oluo
- The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander
- Just Mercy, by Bryan Stevenson
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
- Me and White Supremacy, by Layla Saad
- I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness, by Austin Channing Brown
- Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out, by Ruth King
- America’s Original Sin, by Jim Wallis
- White Awake: An Honest Look at What It Means to Be White, by Daniel Hill
- Sister Outsider, by Audre Lorde
- Your Silence Will Not Protect You, by Audre Lorde
Films + Videos
- When They See Us, on Netflix
- 13th, on Netflix
- American Son, on Netflix
- Selma, on Amazon Prime
- I Am Not Your Negro, on Amazon Prime
- The Black Panther: Vanguard of the Revolution, on Amazon Prime
- The Hate You Give, on Hulu
- How to deconstruct racism, one headline at a time, via Ted Talk
- LA 92, on Netflix
- If Beale Street Could Talk, on Hulu