#BlackRadicalTradition
Yesss. Imagine millions of newly free people hungry to learn and Freedom's Torchlight coming up with ways to address that desire at scale.

Platforms like #BlackSky that enable people to share info, art, and stories, to organize and provide mutual aid, can have a big impact.

#BlackRadicalTradition
Omg, I love it.

The Civil War ended 1865. African American newspaper the Freedom's Torchlight, was teaching folks to read. 🥹

"To Make Negro Literature"
by Elizabeth McHenry

Read free #OpenAccess
#Blackademics #BlackSky

library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

(Also The Emancipation Circuit, T. Davis)
January 20, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Jackson’s “free colored” troops saved New Orleans in 1812—then got erased.
Victory: praise.
Peace: prohibition.
Black courage became white property overnight.
History repeats: serve, survive, vanish.
#HistoryMatters #BlackRadicalTradition
October 27, 2025 at 5:00 AM
#OrisanmiBurton is brilliant, so I don't have to pretend to be anymore! LOL! A must for anyone interested in the #BlackRadicalTradition. And y'all know about @IMIXWHATILIKE by now! Check the whole series on #YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlJB...
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September 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
With all the McCarthyist red baiting going on, especially by white elite to divide people of color, lets list some notable democratic socialist and to the left. #BlackRadicalTradition
August 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Lorde wrote about self-care while battling cancer, emphasizing the difference between "overextending" versus "stretching" oneself. She saw caring for her health as necessary to sustain her activism and fight against systemic racism. #BlackRadicalTradition 🧵 3/10
June 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Malcolm X didn’t whisper in the face of injustice—he roared.
🗣️ This Wisdom Wednesday, let’s remember: silence never saved us.
Want change? Make noise.
Want justice? Speak it loud.
Want liberation? Organize with fire.
#WisdomWednesday #MalcolmXWeek #SpeakTruth #MakeSomeNoise #BlackRadicalTradition
May 21, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Track list for Black Radical Tradition mixtape "A Listening Party, Vol. I" from Shana L. Redmond and Kwame M. Phillips' chapter in Futures of Black Radicalism (Verso 2017).
#mixtape #blackradicaltradition
December 24, 2024 at 4:31 AM
7 of 20. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

#BookSky💙📚
#books
#bookchallenge
#blackradicaltradition
#blackstudies
December 22, 2024 at 4:15 PM
Another book I should have read sooner. #blacksky #booksky #blackradicaltradition
November 23, 2024 at 3:53 PM