Education

Local Happenings

• On November 22, 2020, Franklin students of color gathered to share their experiences with race in Town
  
• Towards a More Perfect Union radio show
  hosted by Natalia Linos, State Rep Jeff Roy, and Dr. Michael Walker-Jones
  Mondays at 11 AM, 2 PM and 8 PM on Franklin Public Radio (102.9 FM)
• Franklin Area Against Racism Facebook group
• Franklin Police Department response to “Eight Can’t Wait” police reform campaign

Our Favorite Books

• How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
• White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
• Caste by Isabel Wilderson
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• They Can’t Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
• Journey to Topaz by Yoshiko Uchida
• Warriors Don't Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals

Our Favorite Movies

• Do the Right Thing (1989)
• Get Out (2017)
• 13th (2016)
• If Beale St. Could Talk (2018)
• The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019)
• Blindspotting (2018)
• BlacKkKlansman (2018)
• Sorry to Bother You (2018)
• Selma (2014)
• Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)
• I am Not Your Negro (2016)
• Moonlight (2016)
• Best of Enemies (2019)
• Paris is Burning (1990)
• Green Book (2018)
• Mississippi Burning (1988)
• The Pianist (2002)
• American History X (1998)