Movies/Documentaries/ TV Series
- Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
- The Color Purple (1985)
- Coming to America (1988)
- Remember the Titans (2000)
- Ray (2004)
- 42 (2013)
- Fruitvale Station (2013)
- The Butler (2013)
- Get On Up (2014)
- Selma (2014)
- A Ballerina's Tale (2015)
- 13th (2016)
- Hidden Figures (2016)
- Detroit (2017)
- Being Serena (2018)
- Harriet (2019)
- Just Mercy (2019)
- When They See Us (2019)
- All In: The Fight For Democracy (2020)
- Becoming (2020)
- I Am Not Your Negro (2020)
- John Lewis: Good Trouble (2020)
- Self-Made: Madam CJ Walker (2020)
- The United States Vs. Billie Holiday (2021)
Sitcoms
- A Different World
- Blackish
- Family Matters
- Living Single
- The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
- The Bernie Mac Show
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Black Writers: Authors, Poets, & Playwrights
- Maya Angelou
- James Baldwin
- Octavia E. Butler
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Ralph Ellison (Emerson)
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- Nikki Giovanni
- Yaa Gyasi
- Lorraine Hansberry
- Langston Hughes
- Zora Neale Hurston
- James Weldon Johnson
- Terry McMillan
- Toni Morrison
- Alice Walker
- Cornel West
- Isabel Wilkerson
- August Wilson
- Richard Wright
FREE Events & Performances
- African American Poets And Their Poetry, Saturday, Feb. 6th (Info)
- Soul Food for my Soulmate, Thursday, Feb. 11th (Register)
- Virtual History Tour of Frederick Douglas Sites, Sunday, Feb. 14th (Get Free Tickets)
- Turning Talk Into Action Discussion, Tuesday, Feb. 16th (Register)
- Stax's Rhythm & Revolution: An Expression of Struggle, Collaboration, & Peace, Wednesday, Feb. 17th (Register)
- Black History Month Dinner Series with Chef Elijah Mulligan, Friday, Feb. 19th (Info)
- Howard University Gospel Choir, Friday, Feb. 19th (Get Free Tickets)
- Chicago Children's Choir, Thursday, Feb. 25th (Info)
- ASAL Black History Festival - All Month (Info)
- PBS Black History Month Movie Premieres - All Month (Info)
- Smithsonian Institute and the National Museum of African American History and Culture Black History Programming - All Month (Info)