INCLUSIONADO CELEBRATES
March is Black History Month, is our nation’s way of showing respect and recognition for the hard work and sacrifices made by African Americans. One way to celebrate Black culture and experiences is through books and films. Here are a few to help you get started.
Black History Month
“The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.” – Martin Luther King
Note that these words weren’t written by a man but a teenager in an essay entitled “The Purpose of Education” for the Morehouse College Maroon Tiger school paper during his senior year of college. Let’s empower and challenge our students to be champions of social justice!
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Elementary
- The Frog Scientist, by Pamela S. Turner
- Grandma’s Gift by Eric Velasquez
- Henry’s Freedom Box by Ellen Levine
- Keeping the Night Watch by Hope Anita Smith
- Mary McLeod Bethune by Eloise Greenfield
- My People by Langston Hughes
- Negro Speaks of Rivers, The by Langson Hughes
- Never Forgotten by Patricia C. McKissack
- Roots and Blues: A Celebration by Arnold Adoff
- Underground by Shane W. Evans
- Way a Door Closes, The by Hope Anita Smith
Middle School
- Feathers by Jacqueline Woodson
- Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America by Andrea Davis Pinkney
- Heart and Soul: The Story of America and African Americans by Kadir Nelson
- Hurry Freedom: African Americans in Gold Rush California by Jerry Stanley
- Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don’t You Grow Weary by Elizabeth Partridge
- Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl by Tonya BoldenNinth Ward by Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali by Charles R. Smith, Jr.
- When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson by Pam Munoz Ryan
- Zora and Me by Victoria Bond
High school
- All American Boys by Brendan Kiely and Jason Reynolds
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip M. Hoose
- Forged by Fire by Sharon Draper
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
- Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March by Lynda Blackmon Lowery
- X: A Novel by Ilyasah Shabazz and Kekla Magoon
YOUTH Films
Native American Heritage Month
- Hair Love
- Canvas
- Soul
- A Wrinkle In Time
- Jingle Jangle
- Akeelah and the Bee
- Bino and Fino (Animated Series)
- Nella the Princess Knight (Animated Series)
- Esme and Roy (Animated Series)
- Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts (Animated Series)
- The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind
- See you Yesterday
- The Hate You Give
- Fast Color
- Hidden Figures
- Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse
- The Pursuit of Happyness
- Black Panther
- Loving (PG -13)
- Beast of the Southern Wild (PG-13)
- Madam C. J. Walker
- Project Power