As summer winds down and students of all ages prepare for a new school year, we’ve created our very own back-to-school “curriculum.” Here are SiX staffers recommendations for what to read or watch this fall.
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📚 Nonfiction Books
🪄 Fiction Books
💭 Other Reads
📺 TV Shows
🎥 Films
What We’re Reading
Nonfiction books
- The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee
- Decoding Greatness: The Hidden Strategy for Achieving Extraordinary Success by Ron Friedman
- Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari
- The Echoing Ida Collection edited by Cynthia R. Greenlee, Kemi Alabi, and Janna A. Zinzi
- How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest by Zeynep Tufekci
- On Gold Mountain by Lisa See
- The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War by Jonathan Daniel Wells
- The Bold World by Jodie Patterson
- Denmark Vesey: The Buried Story of America’s Largest Slave Rebellion and the Man Who Led It by David Robertson
Fiction Books
- Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia
- Memorial by Brian Washington
Other Reads
- Nap Ministry (Website)
- “The 7 types of rest that every person needs” by Saundra Dalton-Smith MD (Article)
- “What to do About Ahav?” by Hannah Dreier
I am making a shift to the idea that rest is right, and restful leaders are powerful leaders. This article gives me language and daily tools to build rest into my leadership practice – in big and small ways.
This collection is the perfect summer read because you can dip into one stand alone article at a time, or sink into meaty sections of work like birth justice, family matters, or naked power.
What We’re Watching
TV
- Generation Hustle (HBO Max)
- This is Life with Lisa Ling (CNN)
- Ted Lasso (Apple TV)
- Blindspotting (Starz)
- Amend: The Fight for America (Netflix)
Film
- Tina (HBO)
- Right to Harm
- Gather
- Mary J. Blige’s My Life (Amazon Prime Video)
- Remothering the Land (Patagonia)
- The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart (HBO)
- Crack: Cocaine, Corruption, and Conspiracy (Netflix)
- The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (Netflix)