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On the 25th May 2020 George Floyd died at the hands of the Minnesota Police. To discuss what needs to happen to achieve real change going forward, ITV News brought together a group of influential Black people from the worlds of music, sport, business and politics, all of whom have faced prejudice as they have strived to succeed.
Fiction
- The Colour Purple by Alice Walker
- Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
- Girl, Women, Other by Bernadine Evaristo
- White Teeth by Zadie Smith
- Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
- All novels by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- The Girl With The Louding Voice by Abi Daré
- Invisible Man by Ralph Elison
- Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman
- Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
- Another Country by James Baldwin
- My Sister The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
- Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
- An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
- Such A Fun Age by Kiley Reid
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- The Bluest Ey by Toni Morrison
- Death and the King's Horseman by Wole Soyinka
- Selected Poems by Derek Walcott
- Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon
- To Sir With Love by ER Braithwaite
- Small Island by Andrea Levy
- The Mimic Men by VS Naipaul
- Blood Rites by Mike Phillips
- The Sellout by Paul Beatty
- The Great White Hope by Howard Sackler
Non-fiction
- Brit(ish) by Afua Hirsch
- I Am Not Your Baby Mother by Candice Brathwaite
- Slay In Your Lane by Yomi Adegoke & Elizabeth Uviebinene
- Natives: Race & Class in The Ruins of Empire by Akala
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- White Rage by Carol Anderson
- Don't Touch My Hair by Emma Dabiri
- Superior by The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini
- Solitary by Albert Woodfox
- How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
- Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
- It’s not about the Burqa by Mariam Khan
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo and Michael Eric Dyson
- Road Map for Revolutionaries by Elisa Camahort Page, Carolyn Gerin and Jamia Wilson
- Black Boy by Richard Wright
- The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B Du Bois
- The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race by Jesmyn Ward
- I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- Black and British: A Forgotten History by David Olusoga
- Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals by Saidiya Hartman
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations about Race by Beverley Daniel Tatum
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
- Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper
- Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
- Ake: The Years Of Childhood by Wole Soyinka
- The Black Jacobins by CLR James
- Beyond A Boundary by CLR James
- Kill The Black One First by Mike Fuller
- Windrush : The Irresistible Rise of Multiracial Britain by Mike Phillips (and Trevor Phillips)
- Race and Culture by Thomas Sowell
- The Content of Our Character by Shelby Steele
- Please Stop Helping Us by Jason Riley
- Losing the Race: Self Sabotage in Black America by John McWhorter
- Up From Slavery by Booker T Washington
Books for children
Film and TV
- Ian Wright doc
- Charlene White news special
- Stephen Lawrence: Has Britain Changed? Thursday, 16th July at 8pm on ITV
- The Murder of Stephen Lawrence Thursday, 16th July at 9pm on ITV
- Trevor Noah Series of insightful videos on Youtube
- The Doll test
- TEDtalk: Recognizing Privilege: Power to All People
- Anti Racism Educator/ Blue eyed Brown eyed experiment Jane Elliot
- Aspects that I can control Dr Jason Arday
- Harrassment at Work Dr Jason Arday
- Realities for Lecturers Dr Jason Arday
- First Black man to shoot a cover of British vogue ITV News
- Black Lives Matter protest with Misan Harriman ITV News
- Mental Health and football ITV News
- Boxer Anthony Yarde ITV News
- Boys to Men ITV News
- Anthony Joshua ITV News
Being Black in White Spaces
Podcasts
- New York Times' 1619
- In Good Company by Otegha Uwagba
- Intersectionality Matters with Kimberlé Crenshaw
- EJI's Lynching in America
- The #GroundingsPodcast
- Radical Imagination
- About Race
- Diversity Gap
- Code Switch by NPR
- White Lies by NPR
- POD Save the People
- What Matters
- Uncomfortable Conversations
- You're Pretty for a ...
- The Intelligence
- The Nod with Brittany Luse and Eric Eddings
- Scene on the Radio hosted by John Biewen
- 1Xtra Talks Special - George Floyd and BLM with Seani B and DJ Ace
- What Matters by Black Lives Matter
- Armchair Expert with Heather McGhee by Dax Shpeherd and Monica Padman
- The Edit Podcast by L'Oreal Blackett
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