Books Recommended by Famous Activists- Page 11 of 11

Half a century after Jimi Hendrix looked to science fiction to tell universal truths through music, Electric Lady Janelle Monáe finds…

“My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my…

Celebrated primatologist and anthropologist Jane Goodall has long loved reading, and credits the books she read as a child with…

A book he started writing in secret during his time imprisoned at Robben Island, Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom details just…

Gloria Steinem, a leading voice of the American feminist movement from the 1960s well into today, has spent her life…

When Malcolm X went to prison for larceny at the age of 20, he quickly became frustrated at not being…

As one of the most prominent and eloquent leaders of America’s civil rights movement of the ’50s and ’60s, Martin…

American poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou once said, “Any book that helps a child to form a habit of…

Author, poet, feminist, activist, and Pulitzer Prize winner, Alice Walker is one of our most storied and prolific living writers.…

Yoko Ono’s had a long and storied career as an avant-garde multimedia artist, author and peace activist. And at the…