From Dessalines to Duvalier: Race, Colour and National Independence in Haiti by David Nicholls

In this lively, provocative, and well-documented history, David Nicholls discusses the impact of “color” on the political relationship between the black majority and the mulatto elite during almost two hundred years of... Read more »

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 »

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 »

EP.056: Dr. Walter A. Rodney Digitally Remastered Disquisition

Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSAlthough it has been over forty years since the cowardly and brutal assassination of our dearly beloved brother Dr. Walter Anthony Rodney (aka Dr. W.A.R.),... 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 »

Nationbuilding: Theory and Practice in Afrikan Centered Education 2nd ed. by Kwame Agyei Akoto

Kwame Agyei Akoto defines nationbuilding as “the conscious and focused application of our people’s collective resources, energies, and knowledge to the task of liberating and developing the psychic and physical space that... Read more »

The Way of Companions Myth, History, Philosophy and Literature: The African Record by Ayi Kwei Armah

In Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Way of Companions Myth, History, Philosophy, and Literature: The African Record takes you out of Plato’s cave and into a sovereign egalitarian African future. This book is... Read more »

Capitalism in Crisis: Globalization & World Politics Today by Fidel Castro

Fidel Castro’s Capitalism in Crisis: Globalization and World Politics Today is a revelatory read compiled from various speeches Castro gave between 1998-2000. In this book, Castro demonstrates abilities similar to a clairvoyant,... Read more »

Wielding Words Like Weapons: Selected Essays In Indigenism, 1995-2005 by Ward Churchill

What does it mean to achieve “progress” within in a settler colonial polity? The question is rhetorical because it can only mean assimilation for the colonized — and to cut through all... Read more »