Written in collaboration with Felicity Crentsil, Andrew Medder, Felicia Thomas, and Lizzie Valuks.
For Black Futures Month 2025, this year’s theme is “Standing Firm in Power and Pride,”. The Law Library team have curated a display highlighting titles which celebrate a range of historic and contemporary Black voices.
You can browse and borrow from the displays, or find a range of e-books and audiobooks to download on our Libby Collection (currently available to staff and students at Clerkenwell and Moorgate campuses).
Featured titles
In Black and White
by Alexandra Wilson. A young barrister’s story of race and class in a broken justice system.
The Alchemy of Race and Rights: diary of a law professor.
by Patricia J. Williams. A seminal autobiographical essay in which the author reflects on the intersection of race, gender, and class and the workings of everyday ‘ordinary racism’.
This will be my undoing : living at the intersection of black, female, and feminist in (white) America
by Morgan Jerkins. A collection of linked essays commenting on pop culture, feminism, black history, misogyny, and racism interwoven with Jenkins’ own experiences. This book was purchased through the Diversify Your Library scheme.
Help us to improve the diversity of our collections
If you have a suggestion for a book by an author that you’d like to see added to our collection you can recommend a book to our librarians. We especially welcome book suggestions written by Black authors, and authors from the Global Majority. Our Diversify Your Library initiative looks to increase the range of authors from the Global Majority, books by LGBTQI+ people and titles which recognise overlapping identities and experiences such as gender, class, sexuality and disability.
Featured audio-visual collections
Library collections include more than books. Explore these audio-visual resource collections available to staff and students at Clerkenwell and Moorgate campuses:
- Kanopy is a streaming service containing documentaries and educational videos and feature films. Explore the Black History Month collection for films such as Stuart Hall – The Origins of Cultural Studies, Franz Fanon – Black Skin, White Mask, Pretty Red Dress and Black Joy -a culture-clash comedy and an unflinching look at the social and financial issues facing black Britons, featuring the National Treasure Floella Benjamin is one of her earliest roles.
- Box of Broadcasts (BoB): View, record, create clips and share broadcast programmes from over 75 TV and radio channels. Curated playlists include: Black British Culture; Windrush; Postcolonial film and geopolitical contestation. (Only available to view in the UK. For educational use only.)
- National Theatre Collection provides high definition streaming video of productions as well as archival material, such as prompt scripts, to give insight into theatre and performance studies. Use the ‘area of interest’ filter in the Advanced search to find Black Theatre, including the superb Michaela Coel’s Chewing Gum Dreams.
Diversify Your Mind for Students: Black Joy as Power
Join the Office for Institutional Equity and Inclusion and your fellow students on Wednesday 29 October, 13:00 – 14:00 (online) as we mark Black Futures Month, by exploring the theme ‘Black Joy as Power’, a celebration of the beauty, resilience, and pride rooted in Black lived experience. This DYM event invites you to engage with stories that position joy as a radical act of resistance and an essential part of Black identity.
Together, we’ll reflect on powerful works like:
- Love in Colour by Bolu Babalola
- Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
- Black Joy, edited by Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff & Timi Sotire
Creating space for honest conversations and reflective insights, join this online event to share your own interpretations of joy, pride, and cultural expression and celebrate Black Futures Month.
Attendance to DYM contributes towards City St George’s Employability Award. Sign up via Eventbrite. Interested in attending future DYM events email edi@citystgeorges.ac.uk