3/5 an MC: The Manufacturing of a Dumbed Down Rapper by Wise Intelligent

Where racist caricatures of African Americans once justified evils including slavery, lynching, Jim Crow, redlining and eugenics – stereotypes reinforced by mainstream Hip Hop are used to justify apartheid schooling, segregation, unequal... Read more »

Natives: Race and Class in The Ruins of Empire by Akala

From the first time he was stopped and searched as a child, to the day he realised his mum was white, to his first encounters with racist teachers – race and class... Read more »

Asafo: A Warriors Guide to Manhood by Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti

Asafo is an in-depth Afrikan centered discussion of the requirements of Afrikan manhood. In it, Mwalimu Baruti clearly lays out African sources of power and the tools that must be acquired, mastered... Read more »

EP.058: MCE: Nationbuilding – Theory and Practice Part 2

Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS  After an arduous and acrimonious dispute with a housing contractor—oh what a crazy summer and fall—we conclude our two-part series with the multi-genius collective,... Read more »

EP.057: MCE: Nationbuilding – Theory and Practice Part 1

Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSOn this 57th episode of Conscientization 101 podcast, we present part one of a two-part dialogue with a collective of artists whose praxis embodies the... Read more »

To Educate A People: Thoughts From the Center by Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti

Self-control is a considerable indicator of maturity. In a state of war where close proximity exists between friend and foe, silence can be considered one of the most important of these values.... Read more »

The Young Lords: A Radical History by Johanna Fernández

Against the backdrop of America’s escalating urban rebellions in the 1960s, an unexpected cohort of New York radicals unleashed a series of urban guerrilla actions against the city’s racist policies and contempt... Read more »

Free the Land: The Republic of New Afrika and the Pursuit of a Black Nation-State (Justice, Power, and Politics) by Edward Onaci

On March 31, 1968, over 500 Black nationalists convened in Detroit to begin the process of securing independence from the United States. Many concluded that Black Americans’ best remaining hope for liberation... Read more »

Écrits Politiques – Politische Schriften – Political Writings by Dhoruba Bin Wahad

Dhoruba Bin Wahad, Revolutionary Pan-Africanist – co-author of the book Still Black, Still Strong: Survivors of the War Against Black Revolutionaries – is  one of the most important witnesses of the Black... Read more »

Agents of Repression: The FBI’s Secret Wars Against The Black Panther Party and The American Indian Movement by Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall

From the Red Scare of 1919-1920 to the McCarthy period of the 1950’s to the COINTELPRO era of the 1960’s. The FBI has operated primarily as America’s political police. Set against this... Read more »