Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism by Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)

In the speeches and articles collected in this book, Kwame Ture traces the dramatic changes in his own consciousness and that of Africans in America that took place during the evolving movements... Read more »

Black Power: The Politics of Liberation by Kwame Ture & Charles V. Hamilton

This book represents the authors initial analysis of the struggle for Africans in the United States. It discusses using tactics of radical reform such as community control over various institutions, self-sufficiency, and... Read more »

Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) by Kwame Ture

C-101 instructs you to ignore the Amazon blurb for this book. If you know anything about Kwame Ture, it would be clear that he would never accept the description of being a... Read more »

Catching Hell In The City Of Angels: Life And Meanings Of Blackness In South Central Los Angeles by João H. Costa Vargas

Since the 1980s, Los Angeles has become the most racially and economically divided city in the United States. In the poorest parts of South Central Los Angeles, buildings in disrepair—the legacy of... Read more »

Never Meant to Survive: Genocide and Utopias in Black Diaspora Communities by João H. Costa Vargas

Never Meant to Survive presents a historical, political, and social assessment of anti-black genocide and liberatory struggles that arose to resist it. Based on fine-grained accounts of community life at the street... Read more »

Sovereign Evolution: Manifest Destiny from “Civil Rights” to “Sovereign Rights” by Ezrah Aharone

From “emancipation” to “segregation” to “integration”, Africans in America exist today by virtue of a continuum of political evolutions, each of which is built upon prior legacies and achievements. In advancing our... Read more »

Inadmissible Evidence: The Story of the African-American Trial Lawyer Who Defended the Black Liberation Army by Evelyn A. Williams

Criminal trial lawyer Williams pays attention to gritty details while relating the events of her life: growing up black and female in pre-World War II America; coursing through a white-male-dominated legal academy;... Read more »

The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C.L.R. James

This book is an account of the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1803, a revolution that began in the wake of the Bastille and became the model for the anti-colonial movements from Africa to... Read more »

Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson by George Jackson

This books is a must read and there is no blurb which can describe George Jackson’s prison writings. We instruct each of you to ignore the illogical and mediocre write ups that... Read more »

The End of White World Supremacy: Four Speeches by Malcolm X

Here in his own words are the revolutionary ideas that made Malcolm X one of the most charismatic and influential African leaders in history. They are the thoughts of a determined African... Read more »