Revolutionary Black History Month Reading List
It’s Black History Month. Essentially, the month when everybody, from Fortune 500 corporations to your local police department, acts like they give a fuck about us. Of course, everybody knows that they don’t. But revolutionaries do, which makes it even more essential that we study revolutionary history and the Afrikan/Diasporic revolutionary tradition from a variety of tendencies. Here’s a reading/book for every day of the month. Please do not try to read all of this in one month, you will hurt yourself. Enjoy.
February 1: Black Like Mao
February 2: The Basis of Black Power
February 3: This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible (Charles Cobb)
February 4: We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement (Akinyele Umoja)
February 5: Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition (Cedric Robinson)
February 6: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
February 7: Manchild In the Promised Land (Claude Brown)
February 8: Revolutionary Suicide (Huey P. Newton)
February 9: Black Reconstruction, Marxism and the Negro Problem (W.E.B DuBois)
February 10: Neocolonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism (Kwame Nkrumah)
February 11: Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party (Bloom, Martin)
February 12: Out of Oakland: Black Panther Party Internationalism During the Cold War (Sean Malloy)
February 13: The Combahee River Collective Statement
February 14: A Taste of Power (Elaine Brown)
February 15: Radio Free Dixie (Timothy Tyson)
February 16: The Black Jacobins (CLR James)
February 17: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa and Groundings With My Brothers (Walter Rodney)
February 18: Barracoon (Zora Neale Hurston)
February 19: Assata (Assata Shakur)
February 20: Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
February 21: This Side of Glory (David Hilliard)
February 22: Balagoon: A Soldier’s Story
February 23: Unity and Struggle: Speeches and Writings of Amilcar Cabral
February 24: Panther Vision and Defying the Tomb (K. Rashid Johnson)
February 25: Negroes with Guns and The Crusader (Robert F. Williams)
February 26: Program of the African Blood Brotherhood
February 27: Black Bolshevik (Haywood)
February 28: Beyond Vietnam (King)
February 29: Bloods (Wallace Terry)
