8394, RE: okayactivist reading list Posted by Nettrice, Wed Oct-11-00 12:32 PM
Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaever Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley Roots by Alex Haley Isis Papers by Dr. Frances Cress Welsing Civilization of Barbarism by Cheikh Anta Diop The Soul of Black Folks by WEB Du Bois Miseducation of the Negro by Carter G Woodson A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn Soledad Brother by George Jackson Black Robes, White Justice by Bruce Wright Almost any book by Toni Morrison and James Baldwin: Song of Solomon/Beloved Blues for Mister Charlie/Another Country Dutchman and the Slave by Leroi Jones The Negro and the Racial Mountain by Langston Hughes (essay) Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement by Ward Churchill Poems and essays by bell hooks, Nikki Giovanni, Audre Lorde, Sonia Sanchez
I can probably think of a few more but somebody else is sure to add.
"No matter who you are or what your age may be, if you want to achieve permanent, sustaining success, the motivation that will drive you toward that goal must come from within." - Ultramagnetic MCs
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