To commemorate Black History Month and recognize that Black history is part of American history, Orange County Coalition for Diversity in the Law (OCCDL) and the Thurgood Marshall Bar Association (TMBA) prepared the below media starter reflecting Black history and heritage past and present. We invite everyone, not just OCCDL and TMBA members, to join us in celebrating Black representation, identity, and diversity all year round, whether in law or in our ordinary everyday lives.

44 Mental Health Resources for Black People Trying to Survive in This Country (SELF)

A Crooked Seat at the Table: Black and Alone in an Honors Class (Tolerance.org)

Black athletes are adored — when they are in uniform (LA Times)

Check-in on Your Black Employees, Now (New York Times)

Dear White People, Your Black Colleagues Aren't Ok (Refinery 29)

Finally, I Can Be Me In Animal Crossing–But I'm Exhausted (Game Spot)

George Floyd Could Have Been My Brother (Elle)

He Paid Off Morehouse Grads’ Debt. Now Robert Smith Is Trying Income-Based Financing at HBCUs (EdSurge: Tony Wan)

Maintaining Professionalism In The Age of Black Death Is….A Lot (Medium)

Of Course, There Are Protests. The State Is Failing Black People (New York Times)

Op-Ed: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Don’t understand the protests? What you’re seeing is people pushed to the edge (LA Times)

Robert Smith’s pledge to pay grads’ loans is ‘a dream I couldn’t have imagined’ (The Undefeated: Jonathan X. Simmons)

Teaching Tolerance: Black Lives Matter Still Matters (Tolerance.org)

Who Gets to Be Afraid in America (The Atlantic)

A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature by Jacqueline Goldsby

Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X with Alex Haley

Becoming by Michelle Obama

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

In This Place by Amanda Gorman

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Jazz by Toni Morrison

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

Kindred by Octavia Butler

Native Son by Richard Wright

Roots by Alex Haley

Selected Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks

Selected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes

Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B Du Bois

Surviving the White Gaze by Rebecca Carroll

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race edited by Jesmyn Ward

Cane by Jean Toomer

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation by Anna Malaika Tubbs

The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

There are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé by Morgan Parker

Vibrate Higher Daily: Live Your Power by Lalah Delia

Wench by Dolan Perkins-Valdez

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum

A Love Supreme album by John Coltrane

Art of Ernie Barnes

Art of Jean-Michel Basquiat

Art of Romare Beardon

Back on the Block album by Quincy Jones

It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back album by Public Enemy

Kind of Blue album by Miles Davis

Musical works by Brandon, Wynton, and Ellis Marsalis

Songs in the Key of Life album Stevie Wonder

Straight Outta Compton album by N.W.A.

Superfly album by Curtis Mayfield

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised compilation album by Gil Scott-Heron

To Pimp a Butterfly album by Kendrick Lamar

What’s Going On album by Marvin Gaye

Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sound, Volume One album by Jill Scott

4 Black Lives Matter Myths Debunked (MTV Decoded)

How Can We Win – Kimberly Jones

Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man Pt: 1 (Emmanuel Ach)

13th (Ava DuVernay) – Netflix

American Son (Kenny Leon) – Netflix

Becoming (Michelle Obama) – Netflix

Black in America (Soledad O’Brien) – CNN

Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 – Available to rent

BlackAF (Netflix)

Black-ish (ABC) – Season 2, Episode 3 addresses police violence

Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu) – Available to rent

Dear White People (Netflix)

Explained: The Racial Wealth Gap (season 1, episode 3) – Netflix

Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler) – Available to rent

Good Hair (Jeff Stilson) – YouTube

Grown-ish (Freeform / Hulu)

I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin documentary) – Netflix; available to rent

If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) – Hulu

Insecure (HBO)

Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton)

King In The Wilderness – HBO

Mixed-ish (ABC)

Queer Eye, Season 1, Episode 3 – “Dega Don’t” (Netflix)

See You Yesterday (Stefon Bristol) – Netflix

Selma (Ava DuVernay) – Available to rent

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (Stanley Nelson Jr.) – Available to rent

The Chi (Showtime / Hulu)

The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.) – Hulu with Cinemax

Time: The Kalief Browder Story – Netflix

Watchmen (HBO)

When The Levees Broke (Spike Lee) – Hulu

When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) – Netflix

Who Killed Malcolm X? – Netflix

Works of Oscar Micheaux

1619 (New York Times)

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

Louder Than A Riot (NPR)

Still Processing with Wesley Morris and Jenna Wortham

The Breakdown with Shaun King

Teaching Your Child About Black History (PBS)