Readings

General Reading

• ‘More Than Just Tragic’: Ma’Khia Bryant and the Burden of Black Girlhood

• Black History Month Library

• An Essential Anti-Racist Reading List

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X - PDF

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Purchase

• Angela Davis, An Autobiography - PDF

• Angela Davis, An Autobiography - Purchase

Prison abolition & defunding the police

• Mini-Syllabus on Prison & Police Abolition

• “Are Prisons Obsolete?” by Angela Davis

• Is Prison Necessary

• Beyond Prisons (Podcast)

• A Jailbreak of the Imagination: Seeing Prisons for What They Are and Demanding Transformation

• Rooted in Slavery: Prison Labor Exploitation

• Reading Towards Abolition: A Reading List on Policing, Rebellion, and the Criminalization of Blackness

• Defunding the Police Will Actually Make Us Safer

Black and asian american solidarity

• Black and Asian-American Feminist Solidarities: A Reading List

• Books on Black/Brown Solidarity

• South Asians and Black Lives

• The Secret History of South Asian and African American Solidarity

• For a post 9/11 analysis on solidarity with Black communities: read a chapter from Deepa Iyer’s book, We Too Sing America, called “Ferguson is Everywhere” that provides community stories along with a framework for discussions and political education

• “From Karbala to Chicago: Reflections on Death, Mourning, & Traditions of Resistance”

• Black Solidarity & Decolonization

Book Clubs

• Noname Bookclub

  • An online community dedicated to uplifting POC voices

• Because We’ve Read Bookclub

  • A Muslim led, radical reading group. Covers topics related to international solidarity & abolition