Black History Month Watchlist

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:

1. Takeover: How We Occupied a Hospital and Changed Public Health Care | Op-Docs via NYT
2. “The Healthcare Divide (full documentary) | FRONTLINE” via Frontline PBS
3. “Birthing Justice” (paywall)

Film suggestions from the Social Mission Alliance Student Council:

1. Selma
2. Eyes on the Prize
3. Malcom X
4. Hidden Figures
5. Princess and the Frog
6. A Woman called Moses
7. Rogers and Hammerstein Cinderella : Brandy Edition
8. Black Panther
9. Love Jones
10. Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom
11. 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.

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