ACT's PASS OVER: Beyond the Theatre
A Contemporary Theatre presents PASS OVER by Antoinette Nwandu from May 31 to June 23, 2019. Librarians at The Seattle Public Library created this resource list of books, music, and films to enhance your experience of the show.
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Fight the Power
Fight the Power examines the explosive history of police brutality in New York City and the black community's long struggle to resist it. Taylor brings this story to life by exploring the institutions and the people that waged campaigns to end the mistreatment of people of color at the hands of the police,
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Unseen
Hundreds of stunning images from black history have long been buried in the New York Times archives. None of them were published by the Times--until now. Unseen uncovers these never-before published photographs and investigates the stories behind them.
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We Speak for Ourselves
In this thoughtful and humorous take on race in America, Watkins (The Beast Side), an essayist and professor, argues that experts who have "strangely no connection to the black people they claim they are fighting for" often overshadow those of "people from the street." The book includes Watkins's recollections of growing up in eastern Baltimore (playing basketball with friends, nightly gunfire, murdered peers, selling drugs, and hustling for money) and of his professional rise, kick-started by a 2014 essay in Salon about class-based limitations on access to information. Speaking more systemically, Watkins outlines the hurdles facing black Americans--underfunded schools, racist police, corrupt housing practices, high interest rates from banks--with facts, figures where relevant, and examples from news stories.
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The History & Heritage of African-American Churches
Documents the cultural influences from Africa and African history, describes the influence of the slave trade, Christianization of Blacks, emergence of an independent church tradition among Blacks and how the Black church was at the center of seminal events in the history of America including the civil rights movement."
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What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker
The co-founder of VerySmartBrothas.com presents a provocative and humorous memoir-in-essays that explores the direct impact of racism on his life, the shifting definition of black male identity, and the ongoing realities of white supremacy.
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