Members of the Social Mission Alliance were asked to share their recommendations to honor Black History Month. Here’s what they said:
From our Health Justice Fellows:
- Takeover: How We Occupied a Hospital and Changed Public Health Care | Op-Docs via NYT
- “The Healthcare Divide (full documentary) | FRONTLINE” via Frontline PBS
- “Birthing Justice” (paywall)
Film suggestions from the Social Mission Alliance Student Council:
- Selma
- Eyes on the Prize
- Malcom X
- Hidden Figures
- Princess and the Frog
- A Woman called Moses
- Rogers and Hammerstein Cinderella : Brandy Edition
- Black Panther
- Love Jones
- Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom
- Remember the Titans
From Robert Rock: “Here are some black history/SDOH related documentaries that I love and appreciate…”
- Agents of Change – a documentary about the fight for ethnic studies departments in higher education in the 1960s
- The Five Demands – a documentary about the fight for diversifying admissions at City College of New York in the 1960s
- The Power to Heal – a documentary about desegregating the US Healthcare system leveraging the rollout of Medicare in the 1960s
- 13th – the documentary by Ava Duvernay on Michelle Alexander’s book the New Jim Crow
- Freedom House Ambulance: The FIRST Responders – 30 minute documentary available online about the Freedom House Ambulance Service
- Segregated by Design – a short 20 minute documentary based on the book The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
From Toyese Oyeyemi, Executive Director of the Social Mission Alliance: “I remember watching this in grad school and thinking how much it influenced my perspective on racial health inequities, as well as community/neighborhood level disparities: https://unnaturalcauses.org/”
For more Black History Month related content, check out our reading list from 2023.
