BLACK HISTORY MONTH Banner shows the word ‘Month’ in the background in huge black and white, 3D letters. The words ‘Black History’ are in red and green and can be seen in the middle of the huge, black and white letters.

● A History of the 1966-70 - https://www.marxists.org/audiobooks/history/usa/black-panthers.mp3

● Akala x Black British History : An Introduction - Part 1 - really excellent intro to Black British History - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iHQUxpqqcs - ​ ​

● Amelia Gentleman - The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment

● Angela Y. Davis - Women, Race, and Class - See Communist Women chapter which mentions IWW explicitly

● Bell Hooks- Feminist Theory from Margin to Centre - https://diyworkshop.noblogs.org/files/2015/10/Bell_Hooks_Feminist_Theory_fr om_Margin_to_CenteBookZZ.org_.pdf

● Black Rose Anarchist Federation - Black Anarchist: A Reader - https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/black-rose-anarchist-federation-black-an archism-a-reader - A great jumping off point. See So What Type of ​ Anti-Racist Group is Needed?

● Cedric J. Robinson - Black Marxism - The Making of the Black Radical ​ Tradition

● Cheryl Higashida - Women Writers of the Black Left, 1945-1995

● - Black Skin, White Masks

● Franz Kofky - John Coltrane and the Jazz Revolution in the 1960s

● Paul Heideman - Socialism and Black Oppression - ​ https://jacobinmag.com/2018/04/socialism-marx-race-class-struggle-color-line

● James Baldwin - The Fire Next Time

● Kwame Nkrumah - African Socialism Revisited - https://www.marxists.org/subject/africa/nkrumah/1967/african-socialism-revisit ed.htm

● Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin - Back From Hell: And Treason To Whiteness Inside Prison Walls - https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lorenzo-kom-boa-ervin-back-from-hell-bla ck-power-and-treason-to-whiteness-inside-prison-walls

● Mia McKenzie - Black Girl Dangerous: On Race, Queerness, Class and Gender

● The Bristol Bus Boycott of 1963 - https://www.blackhistorymonth.org.uk/article/section/bhm-heroes/the-bristol-b us-boycott-of-1963/

● The Combahee River Collective Statement Combahee River Colle - https://americanstudies.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Keyword%20Coalition _Readings.pdf

● Review for How We Get Free: Black and the Combahee River Collective - https://isreview.org/issue/109/reclaiming-tradition-black-socialist-feminism

● W. E. B. Dubois - Socialism and the American Negro https://folkways-media.si.edu/liner_notes/folkways/FW05514.pdf

● Richard Wolff - How Capitalism and Racism Support Each Other - https://www.democracyatwork.info/how_capitalism_and_racism_support_eac h_other

● https://www.blackwomenradicals.com/database - Great resource for reading ​ about Black Women Radicals from across the globe

● https://www.jrf.org.uk/report/ethnic-minority-disadvantage-labour-market

● https://www.soas.ac.uk/blogs/study/how-will-2020-be-remembered-by-black-hi story-month/

● https://www.soas.ac.uk/blogs/study/on-falling-white-ignorance-anthropology-a nd-systemic-racism/ - worth looking at for this quote alone - “But that is the ​ thing. If you respect the side of a racist you do not respect the side of anti-racism, and you surely do not respect anybody that suffers the brunt of racism.”

● https://www.socialist.net/capitalism-is-racist-covid-19-and-bame-deaths.htm

Additions from our members ● Afua Hirsch - Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging

● Audre Lord - The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

● Black Eyes, Black Lives collection on BFI player - A selection of shorts which can be watched for freehttps://player.bfi.org.uk/free/collection/black-eyes-black-lives ​

● Black Lives Matter - Healing Action Toolkit - https://blacklivesmatter.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/BLM_HealingAction _r1.pdf and https://blacklivesmatter.com/resources/ for more excellent ​ ​ ​ resources

● Chinua Achebe - Africa’s Tarnished Name

● Claude McKay - Amiable with Big Teeth

● Fringe Exchange - Programming with Diversity in Mind: Panel Discussion - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peJqqwPag4U&feature=emb_logo

● Linton Kwesi Johnson - Selected Poems - He also is a musician and if Dub and reggae are your sort of thing he’s well worth checking out

● Melvin Burke Donalson - Black Directors in Hollywood

● Liverpool 8 - https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-liverpool-8-1972-online - ​ ​ This recommendation came with a polite warning: this short documentary was made in the early 1970s and is a product of its time. It does include some quite coarse racist language, and descriptions of racist abuse.

● Thomas J. Sugrue - The Origins of the Urban Crisis Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit - Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives

● W. E. B. Du Bois - Darkwater: Voices from within the Veil

2nd set of additions from our members ● Akala -Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

● Arifa Akbar’s 2016 interview with the historian David Olusoga - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/nov/04/david-olusoga-interview-blac k-history

● Black Hollywood: ‘They’ve Gotta Have Us’ - https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0bqmxg1/black-hollywood-theyve-gott a-have-us-series-1-3-black-is-the-new-hollywood

● Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun ​

● David Olusoga - Black and British: A Forgotten History

● Nikesh Shukla - The Good Immigrant

● Renni Eddo-Lodge - Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race

● The New York Review of Books - Racism on the Road by Sarah A.Seo - https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/07/23/driving-while-black-racism-road/

● Wesley Lowery - They Can’t Kill Us All: The Story of Black Lives Matter

Collage of images First row from left to right ● Pink and black feminist symbol ● Red, black and green Pan African flag painted across a road crossing ● Page from quoting the work of Combahee River Collective co-founder ​ Barbara Smith. The page contains ‘a clear definition of a radical’. Only part of ​ the page’s contents can be seen in the collage. ● A group of protesters from the ‘Solidarity with Windrush Protest’ in central London in May 2018. One protester holds a megaphone, many hold pickets whilst others hold a yellow banner between them.

Second row of images from left to right ● The author and rapper Akala stands on a stage with his arms stretched out to the audience ● Black and white painting of the face of the author and campaigner Angela Y. Davis as a young. ● Black and white photographic portrait of the author and campaigner W E B Du Bois. W E B Du Bois sports a well groomed, moustache which curls upwards at the ends and is wearing a suit and bow tie whilst sitting to pose for his photograph.

Images from the following public domain sources: Black History Month Banner Image by Aaron Mervin from Pixabay TMagen / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) ​ ​ SounderBruce - Pan-African flag on crosswalk licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Juha van't Zelfde - A clear definition of ‘radical’, by Combahee River Collective co-founder Barbara Smith, quoted by LA Kauffman in her book Direct Action (Verso, 2017) licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Steve Eason - Solidarity with Windrush Protest, central London 5th May 2018 licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Akala - Hip Hop Shakespeare by Plashing Vole and is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 Thiery Ehrmann - Angela Davis, painted portrait licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 W E B Du Bois from the GPA Photo Archive licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0