the dugout school
The Dugout School is a space for learning together—slowly, intentionally, and from below. Born out of The Dugout: A Black Anarchist Podcast, this project offers free, accessible modules to help us understand the systems we’re living under and imagine ways to break them down.
We believe political education shouldn’t be gatekept. These lessons are made for folks navigating everyday survival, trying to make sense of the world, and looking for tools to organize, heal, and resist. Whether you’re new to radical politics or looking to deepen your practice, this is a space to study on your own terms.
ABOUT OUR EDUCATION MODULES
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Introductory Guides to concepts like Black anarchism, abolition, mutual aid, and state power
Audio and Video Lessons hosted by Prince Shakur and Jordan, plus guest educators
Study Questions and community discussion prompts for collective learning
Recommended Readings, Zines, and Tools to support deeper engagement
Modules based on podcast episodes to connect political theory with lived practice
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Political education is a survival tool. In a world shaped by anti-Blackness, settler colonialism, and state violence, we believe learning together is a form of resistance. The Dugout School is about building political clarity, collective memory, and the skills needed to fight—and build—on our own terms.
OUR EDUCATION MODULES
Each module is a free, accessible guide to core ideas in Black anarchist thought and radical history.
Designed for organizers, political groups, educators, and everyday people, they break down big ideas into usable tools.
Use them to study alone, bring to your collective, or spark conversation in the classroom or in the streets.
check out our growing radical archive
Some media we recommend…
THE BALDIES
The Baldies chronicles the story of a multiracial punk-inspired skinhead crew in 1980s Minneapolis who, initially drawn together by fashion, music, and working-class unity, transformed into a fiercely anti-racist force confronting neo-Nazi skinheads. As their activism grew, they evolved into the national network Anti-Racist Action, organizing protests and pushing back against hate across cities. Their journey reveals both the power and complexity of youth subculture activism—embracing solidarity and confronting internal and external challenges in the fight against bigotry
THE new aesthetics of fascism
A video breakdown by Ben Hoerman
ATTICA
Attica (1974) delivers a raw and unflinching portrayal of the 1971 Attica prison uprising, weaving together news and surveillance footage with on-site interviews of inmates and excerpts from the McKay Commission hearings to illuminate the rebellion and its violent suppression
what is security culture
An audio-zine.
THE ballot or the bullet speech - malcolm x
In April 1964, shortly after leaving the Nation of Islam and embracing a more explicitly political and internationalist approach, Malcolm X delivered his “The Ballot or the Bullet” speech in Cleveland, Ohio. Speaking at a time when the Civil Rights Act was stalled in Congress, Southern Black voters faced violent suppression, and the assassination of Medgar Evers and the Birmingham church bombing were still fresh in public memory, Malcolm reframed the struggle for civil rights as part of a global fight for human rights. He urged Black Americans to unite across religious and ideological lines, use the ballot strategically to challenge white supremacy, and be prepared—if the state continued to deny justice—to defend themselves “by any means necessary,” underscoring that political neglect could lead to confrontation.