Celebrate Diversity Month with These Books, Movies, & Podcasts
In April, people and companies around the world celebrate diversity in their teams and communities as part of Celebrate Diversity Month. Together we recognize and celebrate the unique attributes that each one of our teammates and residents brings to the table, to ensure we can enhance the lives of everyone we serve.
We invite you to read, watch, or listen to stories that expand awareness on diverse perspectives. Get our media list of movies, TV shows, books, and podcasts!
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Diversity Media List 2023
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BOOKS
For Adults
Activities of Daily Living by Lisa Hsiao Chen
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Being Heumann by Judith Heumann
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Courageous Conversations about Race by Glenn E. Singleton
How to be an Antiracist by Ibram Kendi
Life Isn’t Binary by Meg-John Barker and Alex Iantaffi
Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad
My Left Foot by Christy Brown
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business by Erin Meyer
The Elephant Man by Christine Sparks
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias by Dolly Chugh
We Can’t Talk about That at Work! How to Talk about Race, Religion, Politics, and other Polarizing Topics by Mary Frances Winters
For Children
A Family is a Family by Sara O’Leary
All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold
Besos for Baby by Jen Arena
Happy in Our Skin by Fran Manushkin
Her Body Can by Ady Meschke and Katie Crenshaw
Julian is a Mermaid by Jessica Love
Meet ClaraBelle Blue by Adiba Nelson
Miles is the Boss of His Body by Abbie Schiller and Samantha Counter
Pink is for Boys by Robb Pearlman
She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World by Chelsea Clinton
Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o
Think Big, Little One by Vashti Harrison
PODCASTS
Black Women Leading with Laura Knights
The Forgotten Podcast by The Forgotten Initiative
The Heumann Perspective with Judy Heumann
The People of Arete Living Pod by Arete Living
MOVIES & TV SHOWS
For Adults
A Raisin in the Sun
For Colored Girls
Foster
Hidden Figures
Just Mercy
Love on the Spectrum
Minari
Switched at Birth
The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson
The Many Sides of Jane
The Sound of Music
Till
West Side Story
12 Years a Slave
For Children
A Ballerina’s Tale
Akeelah and the Bee
Big Hero 6
Coco
Encanto
Lilo and Stitch
Moana
Monsters University
Mulan
Raya and the Last Dragon
Ruby Bridges
Remember the Titans
Soul
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
The Little Mermaid (releasing May 2023)
The Princess and the Frog
Wadjda
Wonder
Zootopia
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