DEIA Resources

Description: In the years before the Civil War, Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man from upstate New York, is kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South.

Description: Filmmaker Ava DuVernay explores the history of racial inequality in the United States, focusing on the fact that the nation’s prisons are disproportionately filled with African-Americans.

Description: A deep and compassionate novel about a young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to visit a Black youth on death row for a crime he didn’t commit.

Description: The murder of 15-year-old Latasha Harlins adds fuel to the 1992 Los Angles riots, but her family celebrate her life and their memories of her.

Description: Following the deaths of two young women due to childbirth complications, two bereaved families galvanize activists, birth-workers and physicians to reckon with one of the most pressing American crises today: the US maternal health crisis.

Description: hooks examines the effect of racism and sexism on Black women, the civil rights movement, and feminist movements from suffrage to the 1970s

Description: In Detroit, a 97-year-old Chinese-American woman has immersed herself in social activism for more than 70 years.

Description: An estranged interracial couple reunite in a Florida police station when their eighteen-year-old son goes missing.