As a company dedicated to creating more equitable workplaces, our team is constantly looking for opportunities to learn about different cultures and understand others’ experiences. One powerful way to understand and relate to a different culture is through stories. So, we put together our top recommendations for how you can learn about and honor Black History Month through nonfiction books, novels, documentaries, movies, and TV series across a variety of genres.
Nonfiction books
Upper Hand: The Future of Work for the Rest of Us
by Sherrell Dorsey
Brown Is the New White: How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority
by Steven Phillips
Between the World and Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Hood Feminism
by Mikki Kendall
Becoming
by Michelle Obama
I Am A Girl From Africa
by Elizabeth Nyamayaro
The Power of Women: A Doctor’s Journey of Hope and Healing
by Denis Mukwege
A Promised Land
by Barack Obama
A Taste of Power: A Black Woman’s Story
by Elaine Brown
Novels
Kindred
by Octavia Butler
Song of Solomon
by Toni Morrison
The Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
The Vanishing Half
by Brit Bennett
Sankofa
by Chibundu Onuzo
The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
Fences
by August Wilson
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
Documentaries & docuseries
Quincy
Watch on: Netflix
I Am Not Your Negro
Watch on: Pluto TV, Netflix, Hulu, YouTube
Homecoming
Watch on: Netflix
Becoming
What Happened, Miss Simone?
Watch on: Netflix, Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video
The Black Godfather
Jackie Robinson
Watch on: PBS, Amazon Prime Video
The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson
Watch on: Netflix
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
Watch on: Apple TV, YouTube, Amazon Prime Video, PBS
13th
Watch on: Netflix
The Central Park Five
Watch on: Apple TV
Soundtrack for a Revolution
Watch on: Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Tubi TV
The Trials of Muhammad Ali
Watch on: Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video
True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality
Watch on: Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, HBO Max
Movies & TV series
Self-Made
Watch on: Netflix
BlacKkKlansman
Watch on: Hulu, Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video
The Harder They Fall
Watch on: Netflix
Hidden Figures
Watch on: Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video
Girls Trip
Watch on: Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video
Straight Outta Compton
Watch on: Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video
Moonlight
Watch on: Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV
Queen & Slim
Watch on: Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video
Do the Right Thing
Watch on: Peacock, Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Insecure
Watch on: HBO Max
Judas and the Black Messiah
Watch on: Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, HBO Max
Fences
Watch on: Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Watch on: Netflix
Hollywood Shuffle
Watch on: YouTube, Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video
If Beale Street Could Talk
Watch on: Hulu, YouTube, Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video
Malcolm X
Watch on: YouTube
Get On Up
Watch on: Netflix, Apple TV, YouTube, Amazon Prime Video
42
Watch on: HBO Max, YouTube, Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video
Get Out
Watch on: Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video, YouTube
Just Mercy
Watch on: Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, HBO Max, YouTube