The Information Revolution
Alternative Media Can Save Your Mind
(This is a very important starter list of alternative media based news sources. Simply getting all of your news and information from the mainstream media is extremely detrimental to your overall comprehension of global issues and the world around you. You need balance to find the common denominator. Please visit all of the following sources and spread the word to as many people as you can!)
Black Agenda Report
Daily Censored
All GOV
Truth Out
www.truth-out.org
Media Monarchy
http://mediamonarchy.blogspot.com/
Mother Jones
UHURU NEWS
www.uhurunews.com
Vox Union & Free Mix Radio
www.voxunion.com
Pan African News Wire
www.panafricannews.blogspot.com
Information Liberation
www.informationliberation.com
The Black Commentator
Final Call News
www.finalcall.com
Consortium News
Media Matters
Media That Matters Film Festival
Democracy Now
www.democracynow.org
Empower your Mind:
Reading List
Black Labor/White Wealth by Claude Anderson
They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America
By Ivan Van Sertima
A People’s History of the United States of America by Howard Zinn
Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion
By Gary Webb
The Problem of the Media: U. S. Communication Politics in the Twenty-First Century
By Robert W. McChesney
The Shame of the Nation by Jonathan Kozol
Ending Apartheid in America by Arthur Serota
The Huey P. Newton Reader
By Huey P. Newton & Fredrika Newton
Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson
By George Jackson
Women, Race, & Class
By Angela Davis
In Search of Enemies: A CIA Story By John Stockwell
The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents from the FBI’s Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States
By: Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall
World’s Great Men of Color, Volume I: Asia and Africa, and Historical Figures Before Christ, Including Aesop, Hannibal, Cleopatra, Zenobia, Askia the Great … and Many Others
By: J.A. Rogers
The World and Africa By: W.E.B. Du Bois
Confessions of an Economic Hitman By; John Perkins
Legacy of Ashes: Tim Weiner
