Foundational texts and contemporary continuations of the Black radical tradition.
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last updated October, 2025
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
Saidiya Hartman
Black Skin, White Masks
Frantz Fanon
The Black Antifascist Tradition: Fighting Back from Anti-Lynching to Abolition
Jeanelle K. Hope
Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones
Carole Boyce Davies
Greater than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine
Nada Elia
Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care (Abolitionist Papers)
Kelly Hayes
The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World
Vijay Prashad
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (Emergent Strategy, #0)
Adrienne Maree Brown
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Audre Lorde
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Walter Rodney
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Angela Y. Davis
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity
C. Riley Snorton
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Harriet A. Washington
Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land
Leah Penniman
Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
Harsha Walia
Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color
Andrea J. Ritchie
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
Mariame Kaba
Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements
Charlene Carruthers
Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism
Stokely Carmichael
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
Revolutionary Suicide
Huey P. Newton
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism
bell hooks
Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson
George L. Jackson
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
Mikki Kendall
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
Cedric J. Robinson
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