The Voice & Viewpoint staff got together and picked out some films, books, and music for you to check out this Black History Month! Let us know what you think on our socials, website, or send a letter to the editor!
MULTIMEDIA
(TV / Movies / Podcasts)
| Staff Member | Title | Multimedia Platform | Creator / Director | Year Released | Description |
| Tihut Tamrat | She’s So Lucky | Podcast | Les Alfred/ Dear Media | 2018 | A weekly podcast dedicated to women who create their own luck against all odds. |
| Tihut Tamrat | 13th | Documentary | Ava Duvernay | 2016 | A thought-provoking documentary, scholars, activists and politicians analyze the criminalization of African Americans and the US prison boom. |
| Ahnayah Hughes | Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) | Documentary | Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson | 2021 | A Documentary about the legendary 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival which celebrated African-American music and culture and promoted Black pride and unity. |
| Tihut Tamrat | The Six Triple Eight | Film | Tyler Perry | 2024 | An American war drama film on the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, an all-black, all-female battalion, in World War II. |
| Ahnayah Hughes | Sing Sing | Film | Greg Kwedar | 2023 | A stirring true story of resilience, Divine G is imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn’t commit. Joined by a wary outsider, he finds purpose staging an original comedy with a theatre group of other incarcerated men. |
| Olivia Clark | Sinners | Film | Ryan Coogler | 2025 | A period horror-thriller set in the 1932 Mississippi Delta that follows twin brothers who return home to open a juke joint that descends into a supernatural vampire nightmare rooted in blues and cultural survival |
| Ahnayah Hughes | High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America | TV Show | Roger Ross Williams | 2021 | High on the Hog follows host Stephen Satterfield as he travels across the African diaspora to uncover the origins and cultural legacy of African American cuisine. |
| Olivia Clark | Lovecraft Country | TV Show | Misha Green | 2020 | The show follows Atticus Freeman as he journeys across 1950s America with his friend and uncle, confronting both racist terrors and supernatural horrors, while uncovering dark family secrets and ancestral power. |
| Olivia Clark | Abbott Elementary | TV Show | Quinta Brunson | 2021 | A workplace comedy following dedicated teachers at an underfunded Philadelphia public school |
Books
| Staff Member | Title | Author | Year Released | Description |
| Ahnayah Hughes | The Love Songs of W.E.B Du Bois | Honorée Fanonne Jeffers | 2021 | Explores the history of an African-American family in the American South, from the time before the American Civil War and slavery, through the Civil Rights Movement, to the present. |
| Tihut Tamrat | Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde | Audre Lorde | 2024 | A bold, innovative biography that offers a new understanding of the life, work, and enduring impact of Audre Lorde. |
| Tihut Tamrat | Feminism is for Everybody | bell hooks | 2000 | Introduction to feminism that argues it’s a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression for everyone, not just women |
| Ahnayah Hughes | Black Feeling, Black Talk/Black Judgment | Nikki Giovanni | 1970 | Black Feeling, Black Talk, Black Judgment is a bold and unfiltered collection of poems that expresses Black pride, resistance, love, and political consciousness during the Black Arts Movement. |
| Ahnayah Hughes | Mules and Men | Zora Neale Hurston | 1935 | Mules & Men is a treasury of Black America’s folklore as collected by a famous storyteller and anthropologist who grew up hearing the songs and sermons, sayings and tall tales that have formed an oral history of the South since the time of slavery. |
| Tihut Tamrat | The Bluest Eye | Toni Morrison | 1970 | Tells the tragic story of Pecola Breedlove, a young Black girl in 1940s Ohio who internalizes racism and believes she is ugly, leading her to pray for blue eyes to become beautiful and loved. |
| Olivia Clark | Bloodchild and Other Stories | Octavia E. Butler | 1995 | A collection of speculative tales exploring power, survival, and identity while blending science fiction with sharp social commentary. The title story centers around a symbiotic yet disturbing relationship between humans and an alien species. |
| Olivia Clark | The Water Dancer | Ta-Nehisi Coates | 2019 | Follows Hiram Walker, an enslaved man with a mysterious power tied to memory that allows him to transport himself and others through water. After a near-death experience, he joins the Underground Railroad to use his power to fight for love and freedom. |
| Olivia Clark | Kindred | Octavia E. Butler | 1979 | Dana, a Black woman in 1976 California, is repeatedly pulled back in time to the antebellum South, where she must ensure the survival of her ancestors and confront the brutal realities of slavery to return to her own time. |
Music
| Staff Member | Album/Title | Artist | Year Released |
| Tihut Tamrat | Heaux Tales | Jazmine Sullivan | 2021 |
| Tihut Tamrat | Sonder Son | Brent Faiyaz | 2017 |
| Ahnayah Hughes | Flowers | Durand Jones and the Indications | 2025 |
| Tihut Tamrat | The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill | Lauryn Hill | 1998 |
| Ahnayah Hughes | Songs in the Key of Life | Stevie Wonder | 1976 |
| Ahnayah Hughes | When I Get Home | Solange | 2019 |
| Olivia Clark | Cult of Personality | Living Colour | 1990 |
| Olivia Clark | The ArchAndroid | Janelle Monáe | 2010 |
| Olivia Clark | 5 | SAULT | 2019 |