“There is no justice in America, but it is the fight for justice that sustains you.”
Get SOS: Poems 1961-2013 by Amiri Baraka
from wikipedia:
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.
More from the Black History Reading List
I Put A Spell on You by Nina Simone
