Freedom Is a Constant Struggle By Angela Y. Davis
Why This Book Matters
Angela Y. Davis does not just offer history. She offers a framework for liberation. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle connects today’s movements to global resistance traditions, exposing the systems that bind state violence, white supremacy, and global capitalism together.
For nonprofit leaders and organizers, this book offers more than reflection. It is a challenge to locate your work inside a political struggle that did not begin with your mission statement and will not end with your next strategic plan. Davis calls us to recognize how power operates across borders and within institutions, and how our work can either disrupt or reinforce it.
This is not a how-to guide. It is a reckoning. If you are guiding staff through hard conversations, crafting public narratives, managing funder expectations, or trying to stay aligned in the work, this book offers both grounding and provocation. It invites you to bring your full political self into leadership and to reimagine what solidarity looks like in practice.
Whether used in political education, board retreats, or strategic planning, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle holds a mirror up to the nonprofit sector and asks a simple question: Whose freedom are you really fighting for?
Why This Book Matters
Angela Y. Davis does not just offer history. She offers a framework for liberation. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle connects today’s movements to global resistance traditions, exposing the systems that bind state violence, white supremacy, and global capitalism together.
For nonprofit leaders and organizers, this book offers more than reflection. It is a challenge to locate your work inside a political struggle that did not begin with your mission statement and will not end with your next strategic plan. Davis calls us to recognize how power operates across borders and within institutions, and how our work can either disrupt or reinforce it.
This is not a how-to guide. It is a reckoning. If you are guiding staff through hard conversations, crafting public narratives, managing funder expectations, or trying to stay aligned in the work, this book offers both grounding and provocation. It invites you to bring your full political self into leadership and to reimagine what solidarity looks like in practice.
Whether used in political education, board retreats, or strategic planning, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle holds a mirror up to the nonprofit sector and asks a simple question: Whose freedom are you really fighting for?