Black radical tradition

The Black radical tradition is a philosophical tradition and political ideology with roots in 20th century North America. It is a "collection of cultural, intellectual, action-oriented labor aimed at disrupting social, political, economic, and cultural norms originating in anti-colonial and antislavery efforts." It was first popularised by Cedric Robinson's book Black Marxism.

Influential concepts from the Black radical tradition include abolition, racial capitalism, and intersectionality. The Black radical tradition is closely related to anti-colonial, decolonial thought and Marxist third worldism.

Prominent figures and movements associated with the Black radical tradition include W. E. B. Du Bois, Malcolm X, the Black Panther Party, Angela Davis, the civil rights movement, Black feminism, Négritude, Afrocentrism, the Black conscioness and Black Power movements; contemporary movements like Black Lives Matter have also been included in the tradition. A prominent Black Radical journal is Race & Class.

Thinkers

 * Herbert Aptheker
 * Ella Baker
 * Gargi Bhattacharyya
 * Steve Biko
 * Amílcar Cabral
 * Aimé Césaire
 * Oliver Cox
 * Basil Davidson
 * Angela Davis
 * Aria Dean
 * Frederick Douglass
 * W. E. B. Du Bois
 * Frantz Fanon
 * Ruth Wilson Gilmore
 * Paul Gilroy
 * Lewis Gordon
 * Stuart Hall
 * Fred Hampton
 * Harry Haywood
 * Gerald Horne
 * George Jackson
 * Mumia Abu Jamal
 * C. L. R. James
 * Claudia Jones
 * Robin Kelley
 * Audre Lorde
 * Katherine McKittrick
 * Achille Mbembe
 * Mao Zedong
 * John Narayan
 * Huey P. Newton
 * Kwame Nkrumah
 * Luke De Noronha.
 * George Padmore
 * Geronimo Pratt
 * A Philip Randolph
 * Cedric Robinson
 * Walter Rodney
 * Assata Shakur
 * Ambalavaner Sivanandan
 * Barbara Smith
 * Ahmed Sékou Touré
 * Kwame Ture
 * Cornel West
 * Eric Williams
 * Ida B Wells
 * Robert F. Williams
 * Sylvia Wynter
 * Malcolm X