Cross Cultural Solidarity

History; in the Service of Solidarity

The Black Liberation Army

See also:

Black Power.

Resources on the Black Panther Party.

Armed Resistance in the Black Freedom Struggle.

Books

Kuwasi Balagoon: Soldier’s Story: Revolutionary Writings by a New Afrikan Anarchist.

Jamal Joseph: Panther Baby.

The Panther 21: Look for Me in the Whirlwind: From the Panther 21 to 21st-Century Revolutions.

Assata Shakur: Assata: An Autobiography.

BLA Writings

See the collection of writings at The Freedom Archives.

Ashanti Alston:

Kuwasi Balagoon:

Dhoruba Bin-Wahad: The “Terrorist” Label And The Criminalization of Revolutionary Black Movements in The USA.

BLA: Message to the Black Movement: A Political Statement from the Black Underground.

BLA Co-Ordinating Committee (editor): Black Liberation Army Political Dictionary.

Rashad Shabazz: Black militancy: notes from the underground.

Assata Shakur: Women in Prison: How It Is With Us.

Articles About the BLA

Bim Adewunmi: Assata Shakur: from civil rights activist to FBI’s most-wanted.

Isheka N. Harrison: Former Black Liberation Army Activist Granted Parole After 49 Years and Numerous Requests, Impending Release Sparks Backlash.

Bakari Kitwana: The 16 Black Panthers Still Behind Bars.

Ed Pilkington: Black Power Behind Bars: The 19 black radicals who are still in prison after four decades.

Akinyele Omowale Umoja: Repression breeds resistance: The black liberation army and the radical legacy of the black panther party.

Wikipedia entry. (Includes links to Wikipedia bios of many members.)

Will Wilderson: The Black Liberation Army & the paradox of political engagement.

Bruce C.T. Wright: Russell ‘Maroon’ Shoatz, Former Black Liberation Army Soldier And Prison Abolitionist, Dies At 78. The Black Unity Council founder who was part of the New Afrikan liberation movement was a catalyst in the movement to abolish solitary confinement and other inhumane treatment of prisoners.

White Comrades of the BLA

Podcast: Mother Country Radicals.

Kathy Boudin:

David Gilbert: