Black people don’t need anyone’s permission to celebrate our legacy.
We also don’t always have to be in battle mode. Black joy is also resistance. Black education can happen on the screen when Black excellence is on cinematic display.
You can watch a movie that tells the story of Black culture, Black achievement, Black resistance, Black excellence, and Black history every day of Black History Month. And of course you don’t have to watch them alone – the more, the merrier.
Here are over 30 diverse Black movie options to get you started:
- Red Tails
- Malcolm X
- John Lewis: Good Trouble
- Pride
- Ray
- The Long Walk Home
- Glory
- Big George Foreman
- Lean On Me
- King Richard
- Selma
- Coach Carter
- Harriet
- Ali
- The Butler
- Marshall
- Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
- Remember the Titans
- Lean On Me
- The Birth of a Nation
- 42
- The Rosa Parks Story
- Betty and Coretta
- Miss Evers’ Boys
- Cadillac Records
- Talk to Me
- Ruby Bridges
- Race
- Shirley
- Hidden Figures
- Glory Road
- The Great Debaters
- Rustin
- The Six Triple Eight
- The Tuskegee Airmen
How many of these movies have you seen? What’s your favorite movie? What movie would you add to this list?
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Throughout the month of February, I will be sharing one Black History resource or recommendation each day on social media, @NickiSandersCEO.
Nicki Sanders, MSW, is committed to career development, professional development, and organizational development. As Founder and CEO of Nicki Sanders Leadership Consulting, her mission is simple – to eliminate toxic workplaces by developing skilled, empathetic, and goal-oriented leaders who have the vision, support, and resources to create a culture where business prospers, and employees thrive individually and collectively. Nicki has an extensive background in nonprofit management leading high-functioning, multi-disciplinary teams, volunteer recruitment and retention, and social impact programming. She is a thought leader dedicated to dismantling the outdated, narrow view of social work and an accomplished professor, coach, trainer, and group facilitator who has combined her gift for authentic relationships, Master of Social Work degree, and over 20 years of diverse work experience to create a life and career aligned with her values and purpose. She is a lover of nature, cupcakes, travel, and 80’s hip hop and R&B music.
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