Hy Thuman & Kwame Shakur

Support Hy and Kwame's West Coast Book Tour! They will be heading out in mid-October (LA-MERCED-SF-SACRAMENTO-PORTLAND-SEATTLE). Watch for announcements coming soon

Hy Thurman is a co-founder of The Young Patriots Organization, a group of working-class white people who worked arm and arm with the Black Panther Party and the Puerto Rican Young Lords in the 1960s. He is the author of Revolutionary Hillbilly: Notes from the Struggle at the Edge of the Rainbow. Thurman organizes with the Northern Alabama School for Organizers.

Kwame Shakur is the Minister of Culture for the New Afrikan Black Panther Party. His book, My Search for Answers, Truth and Meaning, traces his life from incarceration to revolutionary activism.