Research Guides: Black Lives Matter and the Black Experience: Finding Media

Videos

Amend: the Fight for America
This Netflix series, explores why the United State's ideals of freedom and equality did not apply to all people. These are the stories of the brave Americans who fought to right the nation’s wrongs and enshrine the values we hold most dear into the Constitution.
Democracy Now! -Angela Davis: Abolishing police is not just about dismantling. It's also about building up
Angela Davis explains the meaning behind the call to 'Defund the Police' and connects police abolition to feminist theory and strategies.
Talks to Help You Understand Racism in America
From passionate pleas for reform to poetic turns of phrase, these Ted Talks take an honest look at everyday realities of Black Americans and illuminate the way forwa
The origins of policing in America
Khalil Gibran Muhammad and Chenjerai Kumanyika explain how American policing grew out of efforts to control the labor of poor and enslaved people in the 19th century and beyond.

13th
Combining archival footage with testimony from activists and scholars, director Ava DuVernay's examination of the U.S. prison system looks at how the country's history of racial inequality drives the high rate of incarceration in America.

Kanopy (Streaming Video)
Kanopy is a video streaming solution for colleges offering a "Netflix-like" user experience and a broad selection of over 26,000 documentaries, feature films and training videos from thousands of producers. Touching on all topics, featured producers in Kanopy's collection include Criterion Collection, PBS, HBO, The Video Project, New Day Films, The Great Courses, California Newsreel, Kino Lorber, Media Education Foundation, First Run Features, BBC, and many more.

Fruitvale Station
Based on a true story, this movie follows the last day of Grant Oscar III, a 22-year old man from the Bay Area, hours before his murder by a white police officer on New Year's Eve of 2008.
The Innocence Files
The Innocence Files shines a powerful light on the untold personal stories behind eight cases of wrongful conviction that the nonprofit organization the Innocence Project has uncovered and work to overturn.
Whose Streets?
Whose Streets? is a powerful battle cry from a generation fighting, not for their civil rights, but for the right to live.

1619
An audio series on how slavery has transformed America, connecting past and present through the oldest form of storytelling.
Code Switch
A multiracial, multigenerational group of journalists who explore how race affects every part of society — from politics and pop culture to history, food and everything in between.
Floodlines - The Atlantic
Intersectionality Matters!
Intersectionality Matters! is a podcast hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw, an American civil rights advocate and a leading scholar of Critical Race Theory.
Pod Save the People
This podcast explores news, culture, social justice, and politics with a special focus on overlooked stories and topics that often impact people of color.
Black Girl Gone Podcast
Black Girl Gone is a true-crime podcast that focuses on telling the stories of missing and murdered Black women and women of color in America.