The significance and impact of Black radical thinkers and writers cannot be understated. As we honor traditions of Black Radicalism this Black August, we turn to some of these revolutionary thinkers to inform our understanding of the world and of leftist organizing. Their words, still relevant today, call upon us to continue the centuries-long tradition of radical and decolonial organizing efforts. We hope this list can make revolutionary writings accessible, and can help us to incorporate the Black radicals who have led us to this point—and who will lead us forward—into our abolitionist, anti-imperialist, and anticapitalist struggles.

Recommended Reading

Curated by BIPOC leaders with Party for Socialism and Liberation - Salt Lake, and Decarcerate Utah

• George Jackson, Blood in My Eye
• Assata Shakur, Assata
• C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins
• Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
• Huey P. Newton, Revolutionary Suicide
• George Jackson, Soledad Brother
• Angela Davis, “History is a Weapon: Political Prisoners, Prisons, and Black Liberation”
• Stokely Carmichael, Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism
• Christina Sharpe, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
• Kwame Nkrumah, Neocolonialism
• Robin D.G. Kelley, Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression
• Cheryl Harris, Whiteness as Property
• Angela Davis, Women, Race and Class
• Frank B. Wilderson, Red, White and Black
• Jamil Abdullah Al Amin Die, Nigger, Die!
• Mumia Abu-Jamal, Live From Death Row
• Nkrumah, Africa Must Unite
• Frantz Fanon, Towards African Liberation
• Cedric I Robinson Black Marxism the making of black radical tradition
• Harriet A Washington, Medical Apparthied
• Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
• Jalil Muntaqim, prison writings