A director of romantic comedies finds herself attending weddings with her ex-husband. Who wrote this script?

The central role that slavery played in the development of the United States is beyond dispute. Yet, the practices of teaching and learning about this fact remain woefully inadequate. Professor Hasan Kwame Jeffries introduces Teaching Hard History: American Slavery, which can help change that.

What really caused the Civil War? In this episode, Salem State University Professor Bethany Jay offers tips for teaching lesser-known history that clarifies this question and cuts through our cloudy national understanding of the Confederacy. With host Hasan Kwame Jeffries. (Teaching Tolerance / Southern Poverty Law Center)

nostalgic and new music to vibe with this June

Hair Love is the 2020 Academy Award Winner of Best Animated Short. Matthew A. Cherry made this short to shine a positive light on Black fathers and to have more representation for black children. The film wonderfully shows us the experiences of modern black families — it’s also just pure and so precious 😭 you can watch it on YouTube.

Learn more about the inspiration behind Hair Love in the video below

Everyone is plugging Ava right now and rightfully so. You SHOULD be watching her films from Selma to 13th. She’s required viewing at this point BUT I particularly love her adaptation of A Wrinkle In Time. Having read the book, Ava took the story to places I could have never imagined it to go and again, another look at representation for children of color. Her choices — in casting, tone and vision — have been as groundbreaking as the fact that she was directing it in the first place, the first woman of color at the helm of a $100 million studio tentpole.

If you have kids in elementary school, this is a great one for them to watch.

Read more about Ava’s vision behind the film below

Available on Disney+

Unless you live under a rock, Black Panther is an extraordinary feat in film especially for the black community. It’s not just a comic book film. Read one of many articles about the importance of Ryan Coogler’s film in the link below

Blackkklansman is a film by Spike Lee that finally landed him his first Oscar win. If you know the name Spike Lee, that sentence should make you scratch your head. Spike has about 30 years of filmmaking with critical acclaim under his belt. Why’d it take him so long?

Blackkklansman is such a fun film. Hilarious and thought-provoking at the same time (also hello Adam and John David). it’s worth it to dive into Spike’s filmography— including the very classic Do the Right Thing ⭐️

Watch his very pure Oscars acceptance speech below

I want to make it clear that this list was made to amplify black voices — and that’s what Emma does with her list of educational podcasts. This is playlist she compiled to help understand systemic racism, white supremacy and the experiences of black people, indigenous people and people of color