The Black radical tradition is a revolutionary impulse, a refusal of the status quo, a struggle against domination, a drive to dream and make new worlds, and a will to liberation. It emerges from Black life-often amid and against antiblackness. Propelled by this will to liberation, Black people have cultivated radical worldviews, theologies, social movements, political praxes, aesthetic principles, artforms, and ways of life. In this course, we will explore acts and articulations of this centuries-long tradition in life-writing, movement manifestoes, historical accounts, speeches, philosophy, critical theory, fiction, cinema, music, and the Black quotidian. We will study the tradition in its abolitionist, antiracist, pan-Africanist, feminist, anticolonial, anarchist, socialist, queer, futurist, pessimist, and other iterations. Among the questions we will ponder: How might the Black radical tradition provide tools and insights for confronting our current sociopolitical crises? How might we activate and participate in this tradition here and now?