Resources for Radical Hope

The Afropocene as Radical Hope in a Racialized Society
Resources from Oceana Sawyer

VIDEO

M4BL Presents Black Futures: An Ode to Freedom Summer
https://youtu.be/AH8QSc43LhE

Black Panther UN scene
https://youtu.be/gB83bZVXv_k

original Roots – “Behold the only thing greater than yourself.”
https://youtu.be/02sXPkfS9UE

BOOKS/ARTICLES/POEMS

Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Thought and Practice
https://www.kizzysbooksandmore.com/book/9780271062174

My Grandmother’s Hands
https://www.kizzysbooksandmore.com/book/9781942094470

Octavia’s Brood by adrienne maree brown and Walidah Imarisha
“Evidence” by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
https://www.kizzysbooksandmore.com/book/9781849352093

You are Your Best Thing by Tarana Burke and Brené Brown
https://www.taranaburke.com/books

Undrowned by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
https://www.kizzysbooksandmore.com/book/9781849353977

Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown
https://www.kizzysbooksandmore.com/book/9781849352604

All About Love by bell hooks
https://www.kizzysbooksandmore.com/book/9780060959470

Radiant Rest by Tracee Stanley
https://www.kizzysbooksandmore.com/book/9781611808551

Tricia Hersey – The Nap Bishop
https://thenapministry.wordpress.com/

Resting on the Earth – Atmos magazine 4-28-21
https://atmos.earth/rest-resistance-colonization-black-liberation/

Temple of My Familiar – Alice Walker
https://www.kizzysbooksandmore.com/book/9780547480008

Race and the Cosmos by Barbara Holmes
https://www.kizzysbooksandmore.com/book/9781563383779

Lucille Clifton – “come celebrate with that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed.”
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50974/wont-you-celebrate-with-me

These Wilds Beyond Our Fences by Bayo Akomolafe “I Want My Skin to Breathe”
excerpt
https://www.bayoakomolafe.net/post/i-want-my-skin-to-breathe

https://www.kizzysbooksandmore.com/book/9781623171667

Social Change Ecosystem Map (which includes different roles in movement work) https://buildingmovement.org/our-work/movement-building/social-change-ecosystem-map/

MUSIC

Fannie Lou Hamer

Roots soundtrack – Ishe Oluwa

Roots soundtrack – Ishe Oluwa with English

Sun:Hymn to Be Good by Jomama Jones https://open.spotify.com/track/6JIoocNJSpwmT6oD3EbaGT?si=4721fd9540824051

Kothbiro by Ayub Ogada

I Am by India Arie and A Beautiful Chorus

Breathe by India Arie

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