The films, books, and theatre that shape how she sees the world — curated by a woman who has spent her life at the intersection of culture, justice, and the human story.
Curated by the Artistic Director of the March on Washington Film Festival — short films that illuminate the human condition in under 30 minutes. Each one selected because it moved her, challenged her, or showed her something she hadn't seen before.
Ava DuVernay's documentary exploring the intersection of race, justice, and mass incarceration. Essential viewing for understanding America.
Matthew A. Cherry's Oscar-winning short about a father learning to do his daughter's hair. Six minutes of pure love.
A grandson and grandfather in conversation, framed around the composition of a piano concerto. About memory, jazz, and what we pass on.
From James Baldwin to contemporary memoir — the books Isisara reads, returns to, and presses into the hands of everyone she meets. Not a reading list. A personal reckoning.
Baldwin at his most devastating — a novel about desire, exile, and the cost of refusing to know yourself. One of the great American novels.
Maya Angelou's account of her early life is a masterclass in survival, grace, and the transformative power of language and story.
Ta-Nehisi Coates writes a letter to his son about what it means to inhabit a Black body in America. Urgent, lyrical, necessary.
On live performance — why theatre is one of the last truly communal experiences, and the plays she believes everyone should encounter at least once in their lives.
Lorraine Hansberry's masterwork remains as vital today as it was in 1959. A family. A dream. The weight of what America promises and withholds.
Lin-Manuel Miranda's reframing of the founding mythology — who tells America's story, and who gets left out of it. Electrifying and infuriating in the best way.
Ntozake Shange's choreopoem is not a play — it's a ritual. A homecoming. Every Black woman who encounters it recognizes herself on that stage.