Community Resources for (Re)Claiming Black Joy | University of Portland

Community Resources for (Re)Claiming Black Joy

Click through the listed books, speeches, podcasts, and films to continue celebrating (Re)Claiming Black Joy. Some resources are also available through the Clark Library and/or can be requested through Summit.  

Email oiedi@up.edu with your suggestions to add to the list!

Books

Fiction

A Garden of Black Joy: Global Poetry from the Edges of Liberation and Living, edited by Keno Evol

Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender

Love in Colour: Mythical Tales From Around the World, Retold by Bolu Babalola

This One Sky Day by Leone Ross

Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson

With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo

Who's Loving You: Love Stories by Women of Color edited by Sareeta Domingo

Non-Fiction

all about love by bell hooks

Black Enough: Stories of Being Young and Black in America, edited by Ibi Zoiboi

Black Futures by Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham

Black Joy: Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration by Tracey Michae'l Lewis-Giggetts

Black is Beautiful by Kwame Brathwaite

Four-Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain

Speeches & Music

An Interview with the Founders of Black Lives Matter, Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi

The Black Woman in Contemporary America, Shirley Chisholm

I've Been to the Mountaintop, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 

I Have a Dream, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 

To the King, L & T

Speech delivered at the Embassy Auditorium, Angela Davis

Podcasts

Another Round hosted by Heben Nigatu and Tracy Clayton

Best Friends hosted by Sasheer Zamata and Nicole Byer

Levar Burton Reads hosted by Levar Burton

Our Body Politic hosted by Farai Chideya

The Nod hosted by Brittany Luse and Eric Eddings

The Read hosted by Kid Fury and Crissle West

Snap Judgment hosted by Glynn Washington

Still Processing hosted by Wesley Morris and Jenna Wortham

Films

Akeelah and the Bee, available to watch on Peacock

Black Panther, available to watch on Disney+

Hamilton, available to watch on Disney+

Kiki, available to watch on YouTube

(In)Visible Portraits, available to watch on Amazon Prime Video 

Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse, available to watch on YouTube

Soul, available to watch on Disney+

The Lovebirds, available to watch on YouTube

The Watermelon Woman, available to watch through Clark Library

The Wiz (1978), available to watch on YouTube