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is this moment radicalizing you? let’s get some readings lined up for you. a thread:

Malcolm X (1964) The Ballot or the Bullet http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/speeches/malcolm_x_ballot.html

Martin and Malcolm by James Baldwin (1972) https://classic.esquire.com/article/1972/4/1/malcolm-and-martin

Malcolm and Martin | Esquire | APRIL 1972

“By the time each met his death, there was practically no difference between them”

https://classic.esquire.com/article/1972/4/1/malcolm-and-martin

Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis (2003) https://www.feministes-radicales.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Angela-Davis-Are_Prisons_Obsolete.pdf

Assata Shakur’s Autobiography (1987) https://libcom.org/files/assataauto.pdf

The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House by Audre Lorde (1979) https://www.muhlenberg.edu/media/contentassets/pdf/campuslife/SDP%20Reading%20Lorde.pdf

The Invention of Women by Oyěwùmí (1997) https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctttt0vh (this requires institutional access or creativity)

Sylvia Rivera’s Y’all Better Quiet Down speech (1973)

Toni Morrison’s Nobel Prize Speech (1993)

Fidel Castro’s History Will Absolve Me (1953) https://www.marxists.org/history/cuba/archive/castro/1953/10/16.htm

Toni Morrison (2015) No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/no-place-self-pity-no-room-fear/

No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/no-place-self-pity-no-room-fear/

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W. E. B. DuBois Why I Won’t Vote (1956) http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/298.html

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