#blkcreatives for Black August

By This world does not move without Black creativity.
By This world does not move without Black creativity.

#blkcreatives for Black August

In commemoration of Black August, we curated a book list that supports Black creatives of today who resist through their chosen mediums. Art is reflective of the times. Art has always been political. These recommendations are shining examples of how historical literacy and Black creativity meet. Art has supported some of the most monumental movements of resistance throughout history and provoked new ways of thinking and being. How will your creativity help amplify and support the freedoms we seek today? 

Kerry James Marshall: History of Painting

Kerry James Marshall: History of Painting

$60.00
$55.80
Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power

Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power

$45.00
$41.85
Graphic Liberation: Image Making and Political Movements

Graphic Liberation: Image Making and Political Movements

Josh MacPhee

$20.00
$18.60
Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson

Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson

George Jackson

$18.95
$17.62
Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era

Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era

Dan Berger

$42.49
Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Huey P. Newton and Ho Che Anderson

$18.00
$16.74
Teaching Daughters of the Dust" as a Womanist Film and the Black Arts Aesthetic of Filmmaker Julie Dash

Teaching Daughters of the Dust" as a Womanist Film and the...

$52.74
Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South, with a Foreword by Bryan Stevenson

Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow...

Winfred Rembert and Erin I. Kelly

$22.99
$21.38
Resisting State Violence

Resisting State Violence

Joy James

$33.00
Notes of a Native Son

Notes of a Native Son

James Baldwin

$16.00
$14.89
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective

How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River...

$16.95
$15.76
Sometimes Farmgirls Become Revolutionaries: Florence Tate on Black Power, Black Politics and the FBI

Sometimes Farmgirls Become Revolutionaries: Florence Tate on...

Florence Tate

$18.95
$17.62
Kasi Lemmons: Interviews

Kasi Lemmons: Interviews

$132.00
American Negro Slave Revolts (Anniversary)

American Negro Slave Revolts (Anniversary)

Herbert Aptheker

$24.99
Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

Michael Harriot

$32.50
$30.23
What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World

What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change...

Prentis Hemphill

$29.00
$26.97
Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies

Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies

Andrea Ritchie

$22.00
$20.46
Kindred (Anniversary)

Kindred (Anniversary)

Octavia Butler

$17.00
$14.89
The Black Revolution on Campus

The Black Revolution on Campus

Martha Biondi

$35.94
Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class

Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class

Blair LM Kelley

$30.00
$27.90