Required Reading (for protesters)
“No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heros, if they know that knowledge will help set you free� - Assata Shakur
[ ] I Write What I Like by Steve Biko [ ] Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois [ ] Ways of White Folks by Langston Hughes [ ] The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander [ ] Black Insider by Dambudzo Marechera [ ] What is Slavery to Me? by Pumla Gqola [ ] Black Looks by Bell Hooks [ ] Beyond the Masks; Race, Gender and Subjectivity by Amina Mama [ ] The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon [ ] Magical Negro by Morgan Parker [ ] Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: Slavery and the Rise of European Capitalism by John Henrik Clarke [ ] Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi [ ] The Freedom Artist by Ben Okri [ ] Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga [ ] The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness by Paul Gilroy [ ] Homegirls and Handgrenades by Sonia Sanchez [ ] The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley [ ] Precolonial Black Africa: A Comparative Study of the Political and Social Systems of Europe and Black Africa, from Antiquity to the Formation of Modern States by Cheikh Anta Diop [ ] The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson [ ] Yurugu: An African-Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior by Marimba Ani [ ] Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates [ ] If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance by Angela Y. Davis, Ruchell Magee, the Soledad Brothers and other political prisoners [ ] Black Rage by Price M. Cobbs and William H. Grier [ ] How We Fight White Supremacy by Akiba Solomon