This guide is an invitation to dialogue following a screening of documentary feature film UNSPOKEN. It is based on a belief in the power of human connection and designed for people who want to use UNSPOKEN to engage family, friends, classmates, colleagues, and/or community members in a spirit of openness with an aim toward racial reconciliation. Use this guide as a tool to explore your own impressions and to listen to and understand the impressions and perspectives of others, particularly those that might differ from yours. Please contact us to share your experience and feedback on this guide so we can continue to make improvements and share your experience to inspire others.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Over the course of creating this film, there have been countless conversations, films, books, podcasts and stories that helped inform filmmaker Stephanie Calabrese on her path to better understand racism from a historical and present day perspective. These resources have been helpful.

FEATURE Films

13th, Directed by Ava DuVernay

Always in Season, Directed by Jackie Olive

American Son, Directed by Kenny Leon

BlacKkKlansman, Directed by Spike Lee

Daughters, Directed by Natalie Rae and Angela Patton

Descendant, Directed by Margaret Brown

Emancipation, Directed by Antoine Fuqua

Hidden Figures, Directed by Theodore Melfi

I Am Not Your Negro, Directed by Raoul Peck

John Lewis: Good Trouble, Directed by Dawn Porter

Just Mercy, Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton

Malcom X, Directed by Spike Lee

Marshall, Directed by Reginald Hudlin

MLK FBI, Directed by Sam Pollard

Quest, Directed by Jonathan Olshefski

Selma, Directed by Ava DuVernay

Till Directed by Chinonye Chukwu

The Six Triple Eight by Tyler Perry

When They See Us, Directed by Ava DuVernay

Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America, Directed by Emily Kunstler & Sarah Kunstler

Podcasts & multimedia

1619 Podcast by The New York Times + The 1619 Project Website

Civic Cipher Nationally Syndicated Radio Show & Podcast by Q Ward and Ramses Ja

Letter from a Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King, Jr. (audio reading)

NPR’s Code Switch

NPR’s Invisibilia: The Confrontation

Nice White Parents Podcast Series from Serial and The New York Times

Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho

The King Center: Beloved Community Talks

Look Inward to Challenge Your Racial Bias TEDx UGA Talk by Dr. LaKeisha Gantt

Books

Fire in a Canebrake by Laura Wexler

The Last Lynching by Anthony Pitch

Black America Series: Walton County, Georgia by Lynn Robinson Camp and Jennifer E. Cheeks-Collins

The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. Volume 1: Called to Serve January 1929 - June 1951

The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois

Gordon Parks: Collected Works

Heavy by Kiese Laymon

Selected Poems by Langston Hughes

How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith

Do The Work: An Antiracist Activity Book by W. Kamau Bell & Kate Schatz

Why We Can’t Wait by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Workshops / Classes

Racial Equity Institute Workshops

The King Center Workshops: Nonviolence365 Education & Training | The King Center Institute NV365 Online