"Black Joy is a Form of Protest" - A Year of Change
On the eve of the Anniversary of the murder of George Floyd we reflect on the changes we've seen in the past year and share some black joy for you to engage with.
Books & Authors:
Octavia E. Butler
Who Fears Death, Akata Witch and Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson
Tochi Onyebuchi
N. K. Jemisin
Cadwell Turnbull
Nicky Drayden
Tade Thompson
New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color
Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Native Son by Richard Wright
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Comic Books:
Black Panther: World of Wakanda
Skyward
TV Series:
Them (available on Amazon Prime)
When They See Us (available on Netflix)
Watchmen (available on Amazon Prime)
O.J.: Made in America
The Underground Railroad (available on Amazon Prime)
JoJo & Gran Gran (available on BBC iPlayer)
Movies:
Do The Right Thing, Malcolm X, 25th Hour, Chi-Raq, BlacKkKlansman and Da 5 Bloods directed by Spike Lee
Sorry to Bother You directed by Boots Riley
Selma directed by Ava DuVernay
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse directed by Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman and Bob Persichetti
Moonlight and If Beale Street Could Talk directed by Barry Jenkins
Hunger, Shame, Widows, 12 Years a Slave and Small Axe by Steve McQueen
Judas and the Black Messiah directed by Shaka King
Get Out & Us directed by Jordan Peele
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom directed by George C. Wolfe
Music:
Death (proto-punk band)
TTRPG:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cypheroftyr/into-the-mother-lands-rpg
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