Prince Shakur is a queer Jamaican-American writer, filmmaker, grassroots organizer and educator. He co-hosts and co-produces The Dugout: A Black Anarchist Podcast, a living archive of the Black radical tradition. His debut memoir, WHEN THEY TELL YOU TO BE GOOD, charts his political coming of age, and has been hailed as a “scorching, nonlinear journey through a Black man’s search for self” by Kirkus Reviews
Prince Shakur is a queer Jamaican-American writer, filmmaker, grassroots organizer and educator. He co-hosts and co-produces The Dugout: A Black Anarchist Podcast, a living archive of the Black radical tradition through journalism, interviews with revolutionaries, and political coverage through a decolonial lens. He is an educator on and offline on radical literature, James Baldwin and Black radical history; as well as sharing political education and cultural analysis via his YouTube channel. His journalism career spans a decade and his work appears in Teen Vogue, Afropunk, Catapult and beyond.
His debut memoir, WHEN THEY TELL YOU TO BE GOOD, charts his political coming of age, and has been hailed as a “scorching, nonlinear journey through a Black man’s search for self” by Kirkus Reviews.
