LISTEN & WATCH

Podcasts:

• 3 Black Geeks

• Black Comics Chat

• Black Tribbles

• How to Survive the End of the World

• Keep It

• N.K. Jemesin on The Ezra Klein Show

• ReVisiting Sunnydale: A Buffy Podcast

• Still Processing

• The Gayly Prophet

• The Read

• There Goes The Neighborhood

• Sooo Many White Guys

Music:

• “The Black Joy Experience” (Spotify Playlist)

• Ari Lennox, “Shea Butter Baby”

• Elizabeth Cotten, “Freight Train”

  • Elizabeth Cotten was known as a master of folk music. Before Joan Baez and Bob Dylan, there was Elizabeth Cotten. 

• Florida Georgia Line with Nelly, “Cruise (Remix)”

• Florida Georgia Line with Nelly, “Lil Bit”

• Tina Turner, “Nutbush City Limits”

  • “Acid Queen” (Album) 

    • “Whole Lotta Love” (Song)

• Willie Jones, “Down by the Riverside”

Film:

• Love & Basketball (2000) + The Old Guard (2020)

  • Mack encourages you to find the connection between these two films!

• Black Boy Joy (Short Film)

• A Band Called Death (2013)

  • This is “a documentary on the 1970s punk trio Death, and their new-found popularity decades after they disbanded.

• Amazing Grace (1972)

  • This is a documentary “presenting the live recording of Aretha Franklin’s album Amazing Grace at The New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Watts, Los Angeles.

• Idlewild (2006)

  • This is a film by and starring Andre 3000 and Big Boi.

• Wattstax: 1972 Black Woodstock Concert in the Memorial Coliseum (L.A)

  • This is a theatrical trailer for a rare gem of a film made about the historical event “Black Woodstock.”

Television:

• Excerpt - American Gods: “Mr. Nancy (Anansi) Tells the Slaves To Revolt Against Their Slave Captors.”

• Excerpt - American Gods: “Mr. Anansi Funeral Home Scene!”

Stage:

• Black Broadway Artists, Productions, & Happenings

• We See You White American Theatre
  “In reaction to civil unrest in our country, we—Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) theatremakers—formed a collective of multi-generational, multi-disciplinary, early career, emerging and established artists, theater managers, executives, students, administrators, dramaturges and producers, to address the scope and pervasiveness of anti-Blackness and racism in the American theater.” 

• Playwrights (Contemporary):

  • Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, An Octoroon

  • Tarell Alvin McCraney, In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue (Inspiration for the film, Moonlight) 

  • Suzan-Lori Parks, Venus; Topdog/Underdog

  • Kia Corthron, Breath Boom; Force Continuum

  • Katori Hall,The Mountaintop

  • Lynn Nottage, Ruined; Intimate Apparel

  • Lydia R. Diamond, Stick Fly

  • Donja R. Love, one in two

  • Dael Orlandersmith, Yellowman; Until the Flood

  • Antoinette Nwandu, Pass Over