Black Politics

Hybachi LeMar
The Ghetto-bred Anarchist is an incendiary underground classic that burns bright with revolutionary wisdom. Hybachi's hard-fought reflections and strategies show how we can liberate ourselves from within the cracks of capitalism.

N’golá (São Tomé)This CD showcases the rarely heard music of Angolar Creole (N’golá) speakers from the African islands of São Tomé and Príncipe, many of whom are descendants of escaped Angolan slaves who swam to shore after a shipwreck.

Crimethinc
This historical account and analysis was motivated by a discussion that took place in front of the Third Precinct as fires billowed from its windows on Day Three of the George Floyd Rebellion in Minneapolis.

Ancestor SoundsAn album of landmark recordings featuring residents of the Africatown community, including descendants from the last slave ship brought to America.

Edited by Alyosha Goldstein and Simón Ventura Trujillo
Explores the significance of fascism for understanding authoritarianism today and centers anti-imperialist movements of Black, Indigenous, and colonized peoples.

Edited by Marc James Léger and David Tomas
What is the role of revolutionary art? Zapantera Negra, the result of an encounter between Emory Douglas of the Black Panthers and autonomous Indigenous and Zapatista communities, helps us find out.

Mumia Abu-Jamal
We Want Freedom combines memories of day-to-day life in the Party with analysis of the history of Black liberation struggles. The result is a vivid and compelling picture of the BPP and its legacy.

Edited by: Christopher R. Rogers, Fajr Muhammad, and the Paul Robeson House & Museum
An anthology-in-action of the culture and politics of Black liberation, rooted in Philadelphia’s Black Radical Tradition.

Mat Callahan / Various Artists
The Songs Of Slavery and Emancipation project presents recently discovered songs composed by enslaved people and explicitly calling for resistance to slavery.

Mat Callahan
A critical study that highlights a new perspective of the long-buried and forgotten songs of resistance.

Kirk Helliker and Lucien van der Walt
This pathbreaking volume recovers this understanding of social transformation, long sidelined but now resurgent, like a seed in the soil that keeps breaking through and growing.

Kali Akuno & Matt Meyer
This long-anticipated anthology details the foundations behind the successful campaigns of Cooperation Jackson.

Koni Benson • Illustrators: André Trantraal, Nathan Trantraal, and Ashley E. Marais • Foreword by Robin D.G. Kelley
A graphic nonfiction history of women-led movements at the forefront of the struggle in Cape Town over half a century.

Akilah S. Richards • Foreword: Bayo Akomolafe
This book explores the many facets of unschooling.

Peter Cole • Foreword: Robin D.G. Kelley
The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly tells the story of one of the greatest heroes of the American working class.

David Pilgrim & Franklin Hughes
Haste to Rise is a challenge to others to look beyond a university’s official history and seek a more complete knowledge of its past. This is American history done right!

Nisi Shawl
In these previously uncollected stories, Shawl explores the unexpected horizons (and corners) opened up by SF and fantasy’s new diversity.

Editor: Quincy Saul • Illustrators: Seth Tobocman, Mac McGill, and Songe Riddle
A fire on the mountain where maroon words and images meet to tell stories together.

Matt Meyer • Foreword: Sonia Sanchez
These essays reveal the successful strategies and methods used in recent campaigns to free Puerto Rican and Black Panther political prisoners, confront neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, and more.

Milton Knight • Editors: Paul Buhle and Lawrence Ware
The artistic skills of Milton Knight, at once acute and provocative, bring out James’s unique personality, how it arose, and how he became a world figure.

Samuel R. Delany
A suspenseful and vivid historical narrative, an essay combining scholarly research with personal experience in the story of the first major African American author in sci-fi, and more.

Juliana “Jewels” Smith • Illustrated by Ronald Nelson
An unflinching visual and literary tour-de-force on the most pressing issues of the day— including gentrification, police violence, and housing—with humor and biting satire.

Kuwasi Balagoon • Edited by Matt Meyer and Karl Kersplebedeb
Balagoon combined anarchism with Black nationalism, broke the rules of sexual and political conformity, and took up arms against the white-supremacist state.

David Pilgrim
Watermelons, Nooses, and Straight Razors uses images from the Jim Crow Museum and stories from the author's journey, challenging the integrity of racial narratives.

Sekou Odinga, Dhoruba Bin Wahad, Jamal Joseph • Editors: Matt Meyer & déqui kioni-sadiki
The collective autobiography of the New York Panther 21.