RFR Resources

Angela Davis: An Autobiography by Angela Davis

Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur

A Taste of Power by Elaine Brown

Black Power 50 by Komozi Woodard

Blues Legacies and Black Feminism by Angela Y. Davis

Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party by Ericka Huggins 

Ella Baker And The Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision by Barbara Ransby

Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination by Robin D.G. Kelley

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis

How It Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement by Ruth Feldstein 

I’m Still Here: Confessions of a Sex Kitten by Eartha Kitt

Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday and William Dufty

Lena by Lena Horne and Richard Schickel

Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound by Daphne A. Brooks

Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought by Briona Simone Jones

Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by adrienne maree brown

Poetry for the People: A Revolutionary Blueprint by June Jordan

Revolution Is Love: A Year of Black Trans Liberation by Mikelle Street, Joela Rivera, Raquel Willis

Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era by Ashley D. Farmer 

Sisters in the Struggle: African-American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement by Bettye Collier-Thomas 

Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson by George Jackson

Solitary by Albert Woodfox

SOS: Calling All Black People: A Black Arts Movement Reader edited by John H. Bracey, Sonia Sanchez, and James Smethurst

Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974-1989 edited by Julie R. Enszer

Still Black, Still Strong Survivors of the U.S. War Against Black Revolutionaries by Dhoruba Bin Wahad, Assata Shakur and Mumia Abu-Jamal

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley

The Legs Are the Last to Go: Aging, Acting, Marrying, and Other Things I Learned the Hard Way by Diahann Carroll

The Young Lords: A Radical History by Johanna Fernández

Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea Ritchie

Want to Start a Revolution?: Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle by Dayo F. Gore, Jeanne Theoharis, Komozi Woodard

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals by Saidiya Hartman

We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For by Eddie Glaude

We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party" by Mumia Abu-Jamal

Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison by Shaka Senghor

Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements by Charlene Carruthers