The Paramount Center for the Arts celebrates and honors Black History Month.
We encourage you to watch, listen and read about the contributions African Americans have made throughout history by checking out the list of resources below.
To Watch – Television
Blackish
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Dear White People
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Lovecraft Country
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Self-Made
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Underground
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Watchmen
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When They See Us
To Watch – Film
13th
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Do The Right Thing
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For Colored Girls
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Fruitvale Station
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Get Out
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I Am Not Your Negro
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Moonlight
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The Black Power Mixtape: 1967 – 1975
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Time: The Kalief Browder Story
To Read – Non Fiction
The New Jim Crow
by Michelle Alexander
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The Fire Next Time
by James Bladwin
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Women, Race, and Class
by Angela Davis
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Sister Outsider
by Audre Lorde
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Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations
by Toni Morrison
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
by Isabel Wilkerson
To Read – Fiction
The Water Dancer
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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The Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Huston
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The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison
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Sulwe
by Lupita Nyong’o
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Swing Time
by Zadie Smith
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The Hate U Give
by Angie Thomas
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Native Son
by Richard Wright
To Listen – Music
Black Is King, Beyonce
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Coming Home, Leon Bridges
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Black America Again, Common
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Section.80, Kendrick Lamar
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Electric Lady, Janelle Monae
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I Put A Spell On You, Nina Simone
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A Seat At The Table, Solange
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Songs In The Keys Of Life, Stevie Wonder