Movies and Books to Celebrate Black History Month
Skylar Rozyckie
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February celebrates Black history, an important way to honor African Americans and highlight historical achievements of the African American culture.
One way to celebrate Black History Month is to read books and watch films whose subjects and subject matter is focused on the African American experience and culutre.
Here is list of titles CV students should read and view not just in February, but any time because, "Black history is American history."
Novels and Books
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Color of Water by James McBride
Song of Solomon by Toni Morriosn
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas
Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennet
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Beals
While The World Watched by Carolyn McKinstry
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Movies
The Help
12 Years a Slave
42
Loving
The Hate You Give
The Green Book
Moonlight
Hidden Figures
Selma
The Hate You Give
A Raisin in The Sun
Just Mercy