Book: “Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower” by Brittney Cooper

About: So what if it’s true that Black women are mad as hell? They have the right to be. In the Black feminist tradition of Audre Lorde, Brittney Cooper reminds us that anger is a powerful source of energy that… Read More

Book: “Me and White Supremacy” by Layla F. Saad

About: Me and White Supremacy: A 28-Day Challenge to Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor leads readers through a journey of understanding their white privilege and participation in white supremacy, so that they can stop (often… Read More

Book: “The Next American Revolution Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century” by Grace Lee Boggs

About: In this powerful, deeply humanistic book, Grace Lee Boggs, a legendary figure in the struggle for justice in America, shrewdly assesses the current crisis—political, economical, and environmental—and shows how to create the radical social change we need to confront… Read More

Book: “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration” by Isabel Wilkerson

About: From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access… Read More

Book: “The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America” by Khalil Gibran Muhammad

About: Lynch mobs, chain gangs, and popular views of black southern criminals that defined the Jim Crow South are well known. We know less about the role of the urban North in shaping views of race and crime in American… Read More

Book: “Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition” by Cedric J. Robinson

About: In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand black people’s history of resistance solely through the prism of Marxist theory are incomplete and inaccurate. Marxist analyses tend to presuppose European models of… Read More