#BlackHistoryMonth 2026 Reading and Film Lists

Davie Hammons and Gustave Klimt

NOTE:  If you want to learn more about DAVID HAMMONS …  here is a LINK for article in NYTimes

#BlackHistoryMonth 2026 Reading List:

1. Africa is Not a Country – Dipo Faloyin (NF)
2. Toni at Random  – Dana A. Williams (NF)
3. Parable of the Sower –  O. Butler (SF)
4. EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art ( 37 essays) – Kellie Jones (NF)
5. Misbehaving at the Crossroads – Honorée Fanonne Jeffers (NF)
6. The Intentions of  Thunder – P. Smith  #NationalBookAward 2025  (poetry)
7. I’m Still Here – A. C. Brown (NF)
8. Four Hundred Souls – Ibram X. Kendi (NF)
   

FILMS:  Outstanding directors 

1. Raoul Peck (Haiti): I Am Not Your Negro (2016) AppleTV (rent)
2. Ava DuVerbay (USA):  When They See Us (2019)  Netflix  (mini series 4 episodes)
3. Spike Lee (USA): Katrina: Come Hell and High Water (2025) Netflix. (mini series 3 episodes)
4. Dee Rees (USA): Mudbound (2017) Netflix
5. Sir Alan Parker (UK): Mississippi Burning (1988) AppleTV (rent)…(one of my favourite movies…re-watching)
6. Chinonye Chukwu (Nigeria): Till (2022) Prime and AppleTV (rent)
7. George C. Wolfe (USA): Rustin (2023) Netflix 
8. Ryan Coogler (USA): Sinners  (2025)   HBOMax Southern Gothic horror  – 16 Oscar nominations!
9. Mike Leigh (UK) (2025 – Hard Truths AppleTV (rent)
10. Malcolm Washington (USA) (2024) Netflix – The Piano Lesson 
11. Greg Kwedar (USA) (2023) – Sing Sing AppleTV (rent)
12. Dawn Porter (USA) Luther: Never Too Much (2024) – AppleTV (rent)
13. Minhal Baig (USA) (2023) – We Grown Now AppleTV (rent)

Untitled (Mother and Child) 1967 Tom Feelings