People you should know, but probably don't
1) Bayard Rustin
2) Rosemary Brown
3) A. Phillip Randolph
4) BR Ambedkar
5) Walter Rodney
6) Chris Hani
7) Emma Goldman
8) Grace Lee-Boggs
9) Ceasar Chavez
10) Nye Bevan
Top 10 Public Intellectuals of the 20th Century
1) Noam Chomsky
2) Jean Paul Sartre
3) Pierre Bourdieu
4) Simone De Beauvoir
5) Albert Camus
6) Germaine Greer
7) Edward Said
8) WEB DuBois
9) Christopher Hitchens
10) John Gray
Top 10 Albums of All Time
1) It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back - Public Enemy
2) The Beatles (aka The White Album) - The Beatles
3) Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
4) Giant Steps - John Coltrane
5) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
6) Purple Rain - Prince and the Revolution
7) At Folsom Prison - Johnny Cash
8) Nas - Illmatic (No Joke!)
9) Natty Dread - Bob Marley and the Wailers
10) Til' Shiloh - Buju Banton
Lit Picks
1) For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
2) The Fall - Albert Camus
3) Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
4) Animal Farm - George Orwell
5) The Road to Wigan Pier - George Orwell
6) The Stranger - Albert Camus
7) A Walk in the Night - Alex La Guma
8) Post Office - Charles Bukowski
9) Robert Tressell - The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
10) Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
Political Picks
On the Political - Chantal Mouffe
On Violence - Hannah Arendt
The Condition of Postmodernity - David Harvey
One Hundred Years of Socialism - Donald Sassoon
Poor People's Movements - Piven and Cloward
The Hard Road to Renewal - Stuart Hall
Class Notes - Adolph Reed Jr.
The Power Elite - C Wright Mills
The Great Transformation - Karl Polanyi
State of Exception - Giorgio Agamben
Top 10 Footballers of All Time
1) Pele
2) Diego Marradona
3) George Best
4) Eusebio
5) Michel Platini
6) Zinedine Zidane
7) Paolo Maldini
8) Chic Charnley
9) Cryuff
10) Franz Beckenbauer