Ready for Revoltion by Stokely Carmichael

“There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.”

— Stokely Carmichael

Get Ready for Revolution by Stokely Carmichael and Stokely: A Life by Peniel E. Joseph

Kwame Touré, once known as Stokely Carmichael(June 29, 1941 – November 15, 1998), was a Trinidadian-American activist active in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, and later, the global Pan-African movement. Growing up in the United States from the age of eleven, he graduated from Howard University. He rose to prominence in the civil rights and Black Power movements, first as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), later as the "Honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther Party, and finally as a leader of the All-African Peoples Revolutionary Party.[1]

Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)

Stokely: A Life

By Peniel E. Joseph

POTD - The Problem with Describing Trees by Robert Hass

The Problem of Describing Trees

The aspen glitters in the wind
And that delights us.

The leaf flutters, turning,
Because that motion in the heat of August
Protects its cells from drying out. Likewise the leaf
Of the cottonwood.

The gene pool threw up a wobbly stem
And the tree danced. No.
The tree capitalized.
No. There are limits to saying, 
In language, what the tree did.

It is good sometimes for poetry to disenchant us.

Dance with me, dancer. Oh, I will.

Mountains, sky,
The aspen doing something in the wind.

Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005

The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton

“Every pair of eyes facing you has probably experienced something you could not endure.”

— Lucille Clifton

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Lucille Clifton (June 27, 1936, Depew, New York – February 13, 2010,Baltimore, Maryland)[1] was an American poet, writer, and educator fromBuffalo, New York.[2][3][4] From 1979 to 1985 she was Poet Laureate of Maryland. Frequent topics in her poetry include the celebration of her African-American heritage, women's experience, and the female body.

She was also nominated twice for the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.

The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 (American Poets Continuum)

Measure of a Man by Sidney Poitier

“Okay listen, you think I’m so inconsequential? Then try this on for size. All those who see unworthiness when they look at me and are given thereby to denying me value - to you I say, I’m not talking about being AS GOOD as you. I hereby declare myself BETTER than you. ”

— Sidney Poitier

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Sir Sidney Poitier is a Bahamian-American actor, film director, author and diplomat.

The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography (Oprah's Book Club)

Underdog: Humanized Dog Portraits from Sebastian Magnani

Bern Switzerland based photographer Sebastian Magnani blends his photographs of dogs with their owners digitally to make these humanized dog portraits.

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Directed by Desire by June Jordan

“And who will join this standing up
and the ones who stood without sweet company
will sing and sing
back into the mountains and
if necessary
even under the sea:

we are the ones we have been waiting for.”

— June Jordan

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"One of the most widely-published and highly-acclaimed African American writers of her generation, poet, playwright and essayist June Jordan was also known for her fierce commitment to human rights and progressive political agenda. Over a career that produced twenty-seven volumes of poems, essays, libretti, and work for children, Jordan engaged the fundamental struggles of her era: over civil rights, women’s rights, and sexual freedom."

Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan

Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays (New and and Selected Essays)

Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

“The brightest memory fades faster than the dullest ink.”

— Claudia Rankine

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Claudia Rankine is a Jamaican poet and playwright born in 1963 and raised in Kingston, Jamaica and New York City. She has taught at Case Western Reserve University, Barnard College, University of Georgia, and in the writing program at the University of Houston. As of 2011, Rankine is the Henry G. Lee Professor of Poetry at Pomona College.

Citizen: An American Lyric

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

“To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. ”

— James Baldwin

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James Arthur Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son (1955), explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America, and their inevitable if unnameable tensions.[1]Some Baldwin essays are book-length, for instance The Fire Next Time (1963), No Name in the Street (1972), andThe Devil Finds Work (1976).

The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin : Collected Essays : Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays (Library of America)

Selected Poems of Gwendolyn Brooks

“What, what am I to do with all of this life?”

— Gwendolyn Brooks

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Read POTD - Kithenette Building by Gwendolyn Brooks

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Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000) was an African-American poet. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1950 and was appointed Poet Laureate of Illinois in 1968 and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1985.

Selected Poems

POTD - Kithenette Building by Gwendolyn Brooks

kitchenette building

by Gwendolyn Brooks

We are things of dry hours and the involuntary plan,
Grayed in, and gray. “Dream” makes a giddy sound, not strong
Like “rent,” “feeding a wife,” “satisfying a man.”

But could a dream send up through onion fumes
Its white and violet, fight with fried potatoes
And yesterday’s garbage ripening in the hall,
Flutter, or sing an aria down these rooms

Even if we were willing to let it in,
Had time to warm it, keep it very clean,
Anticipate a message, let it begin?

We wonder. But not well! not for a minute!
Since Number Five is out of the bathroom now,
We think of lukewarm water, hope to get in it.

Selected Poems

S O S: Poems 1961-2013 by Amiri Baraka

“There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you.”

— Amiri Baraka

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Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones; October 7, 1934 – January 9, 2014), formerly known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka,[1] was an African-American writer of poetry,drama, fiction, essays and music criticism. He was the author of numerous books of poetry and taught at a number of universities, including the State University of New York at Buffalo and theState University of New York at Stony Brook. He received thePEN Open Book Award, formerly known as the Beyond Margins Award, in 2008 for Tales of the Out and the Gone.

S O S: Poems 1961-2013

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Hi-Speed Wave Photography by Pierre Carreau

Photographer Pierre Carreau shoots waves with a variety of high speed cameras using various macro and wide angle lenses.

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Push by Sapphire

“… but you cant get all hung up on details when you are trying to survive…”

— Sapphire

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Ramona Lofton (born August 4, 1950), better known by her pen nameSapphire, is an American author and performance poet.

Push: A Novel

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The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

“When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe.”

— Frantz Fanon

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Frantz Omar Fanon (20 July 1925 – 6 December 1961) was a Martinique-born Afro-French psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary, and writer whose works are influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory, and post-Marxism. As an intellectual, Fanon was a political radical, and an existentialist humanist concerned with thepsychopathology of colonization, and the human, social, and cultural consequences of decolonization.

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Kindred by Octavia Butler

“There is no end
To what a living world
Will demand of you.”

— Octavia E. Butler

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Octavia Estelle Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction writer. A multiple-recipient of both the Hugoand Nebula awards, Butler was one of the best-known women in the field. In 1995, she became the first science fiction writer to receive theMacArthur Fellowship, nicknamed the Genius Grant.

Kindred

Trainhopping Photos

Photographer Mike Brodie, beginning when he was just 17,  spent more than 10 years train hopping, walking and hitchhiking, covering more than 50,000 miles in 46 states. Photos he took from 2006 through 2009 make up his “A Period of Juvenile Prosperity” photography project. 

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The Michael Eric Dyson Reader

“Charity is no substitute for justice. If we never challenge a social order that allows some to accumulate wealth—even if they decide to help the less fortunate—while others are short-changed, then even acts of kindness end up supporting unjust arrangements. We must never ignore the injustices that make charity necessary, or the inequalities that make it possible.”

— Michael Eric Dyson

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Michael Eric Dyson (born October 23, 1958) is an American academic, author, and radio host. He is a professor of sociology at Georgetown University. Described by Michael A. Fletcher as "a Princeton PhD and a child of the streets who takes pains never to separate the two". Dyson has authored and edited 18 books dealing with subjects such as Malcolm X;Martin Luther King, Jr.; Marvin Gaye; Nas's debut albumIllmatic; Bill Cosby; Tupac Shakur; and Hurricane Katrina.

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Artist Nick Smith places Pantone swatches in arrangements that recreate famous paintings from Andy Warhol, Vincent van Gogh, and Leonardo da Vinci and others. 

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