Black History Month 2022: Watch, Read, Listen & Experience
Black History is American History.
February marks Black history month in the United States — a time dedicated celebrating the impact of Black culture on America. This week we are kicking off our Black History Month Hub article series by highlighting resources that you can engage with to continue to honor and learn from Black heroes of the past and present. Continue to check this space weekly to hear from Black voices from within the Multiverse Community. Also stay tuned to attend our event “A Seat at the Table Series: The Black Experience at Work” on Tuesday, February 22nd at 12:30pm EST /5:30 GMT.
High on the Hog (Available on Netflix)
How Black food transformed American Culture:
Black food is American food. Chef and writer Stephen Satterfield traces the delicious, moving throughlines from Africa to Texas in this docuseries.
Summer of Soul (Available on Hulu)
(..Or when the Revolution could not be televised)
In his acclaimed debut as a filmmaker, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson presents a powerful and transporting documentary—part music film, part historical record created around an epic event that celebrated Black history, culture and fashion.
Black Buck - Mateo Askaripour
There’s nothing like a Black salesman on a mission....
An unambitious twenty-two-year-old, Darren lives in a Bed-Stuy brownstone with his mother, who wants nothing more than to see him live up to his potential as the valedictorian of Bronx Science. But Darren is content working at Starbucks in the lobby of a Midtown office building, hanging out with his girlfriend, Soraya, and eating his mother’s home-cooked meals. All that changes when a chance encounter with Rhett Daniels, the silver-tongued CEO of Sumwun, NYC’s hottest tech startup, results in an exclusive invitation for Darren to join an elite sales team on the thirty-sixth floor....
The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett
The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical...
But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Many years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. Still, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. What will happen to the next generation, when their own daughters' storylines intersect?
Black History Year (on Apple Podcasts)
Learning your history makes you - and your people - stronger. As Black people, we know we’re left out of the history books. That the media images are skewed. That we need access to experts, information and ideas so we can advance our people. Black History Year connects you to the history, thinkers, and activists that are left out of the mainstream conversations. You may not agree with everything you hear, but we’re always working toward one goal: uniting for the best interest of Black people worldwide. BHY is produced by PushBlack, the nation’s largest non-profit Black media company.
Black Belt Voices (on all listening platforms)
The Black Belt Voices propagates the richness of Black Southern culture by telling the stories of Black folks down South. Through first-person narratives and in-depth conversations, hosts Adena J. White, Kara Wilkins, and Katrina Dupins share the experiences of Black Southerners living in, loving, and reconciling with the region we call home.
A Seat at The Table: The Black Experience at Work - Tuesday, February 22nd 12:30pm EST
For this month's A Seat at The Table Panel series, we are bringing Black experiences at work to the discussion. Join our panel of business, tech, and DEI experts from GV (formerly Google Ventures, Cisco and Multiverse for a discussion that will cover, career progressions, intersectionality, code switching and more.