Required Reading CRWNMAG StudyGroup

What does it mean to be engaged in politics without choosing a political theory to guide your tactics and strategy? How can we change the world without an accurate understanding of history?

We won’t find the counter-narratives to oppression on the news. We don't really need any more think pieces. And social media? Just. Stop. Scrolling. You can do it (I'm saying this to myself)! We honor our greatest minds by (actually) reading their work.

So pick up a book — or 15 — and interrogate new ideas with the people around you. We asked our community to recommend their favorite radical reads, and here is the short list:

1. Revolutionary Suicide, Huey P. Newton

2. Assata: An Autobiography, Assata Shakur

3. The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin

4. The Spook Who Sat By The Door, Sam Greenlee

5. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, Audre Lorde

6. Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition, Cedric J. Robinson

7. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution, C.L.R. James

8. The united-independent compensatory code/system/concept: A textbook/workbook for thought, speech, and/or action, for victims of *racism (white supremacy), Neely Fuller Jr

9. Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Discovery, Bell Hooks

10. The Wretched of The Earth, Franz Fanon

11. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Walter Rodney

12. PowerNomics, Claud Anderson

13. Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison

14. The Destruction of African Civilization, Chancellor Williams

15. The Warmth of Other Suns, Isabel Wilkerson