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February 2025
"To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a state of rage almost all of the time:." ~James Baldwin
Fascism 101
“Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.”
— Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
Our 2025 Reading List
Parable of the Sower - Octavia Butler
Federal Anti-Indian Law The Legal Entrapment of Indigenous Peoples - Peter P. d'Errico
The Message - Ta-Nehisi Coates
Radical Reparations: Healing the Soul of a Nation Marcus Anthony Hunter
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents - Isabel Wilkerson
Palestine : Peace, Not Apartheid - Jimmy Carter
The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump
They Were Her Property - Stephanie Jones-Rogers
Black Power and Palestine: Transnational Countries of Color
Black AF History - Michael Harriot
Unsettling Truths The Ongoing Dehumanizing Legacy of The Doctrine of Discovery
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