Fascism - An excerpt from “Blood in My Eye”
In this letter written from Soledad Prison in 1971, George Jackson critically explores how fascism in America has developed and how comfortable we have become as a society with the constant suffering and unjust and violence of late-stage capitalism.
On Language, Race, and the Black Writer
This is a short speech given in January 15, 1979 by James Baldwin, a Black gay writer and activist. It is a concise yet thought-provoking lecture outlining the persistence of oppression after the supposed victory of the civil rights movement.
The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house
This is a short speech given in 1979 by Audre Lorde, a Black lesbian civil rights activist & poet. And it is also Little Rad Reading Club’s first ever reading material!