I thought it would be most magnificent, and quite a positive thing to do, to make a list of the people whom I feel are important, progressive people that if not known by all, should be. I will just list names and perhaps a little bit about them, as I dont feel like doing much right now, but I will probably do more later.

Dr. John Henrik Clarke, professor
Angela Davis, professor, activist
Barbra Streisand, singer, activist, leftist fundraiser
June Jordan, poet, major castrator
Nikki Giovanni, poet, major castrator
Amiri Baraka, poet, revolutionary activist
Haki Madhibuti (Don L. Lee), poet
Maya Angelou, poet, activist, advisor to the black billionare Oprah ( go girl)
Jane Fonda, actress, activist, humanitarian
Bettina Aptheker, professor, activist, daughter of Herbert Aptheker and friend of Angela Davis
Hanan Ashwari, Palestinian activist and politician
bell hooks, academic, intellectual, radical progressive
Elaine Brown, former Chairwoman of the Black Panther party, academic, author
Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party,intellectual
Stokely Carmichael, SNCC leader, Black Panther, intellectual, Revolutionary
Martin Luther King, progressive,Nobel Prize recipient, in his later days radical thinker
Bayard Rustin, activist
Josephine Baker, singer, activist, progressive radical thinker
Nina Simone, singer, activist, major castrator
Lorraine Hansberry, radically progressive playwright
Howard Zinn, historian, author, public speaker, radical progressive
Alice Walker, Zinn's student, author, radical progressive
Assata Shakur, activist, author, former political prisoner persecuted by the U.S.
George Jackson, prisoner, political activist, author, radical progressive, assassinated by American racists.
Aime Cesaire, author, progressive
Franz Fanon, author, radical progressive
Toni Morrison, author
Derrick Jensen, radical progressive, professor
Sonia Sanchez, poet, radical progressive
Al Sharpton, former presidential candidate, radical progressive
Jesse Jackson, former presidential candidate, progressive, powerful public voice
Ntzoke Shange, playwright
Paul Robeson, actor, singer, writer, political activist, radical progressive
Cesar Chavez, activist, progressive
Che Guevara, political philosopher, revolutionary
Gloria Steinem,journalist, progressive radical
Langston Hughes, poet, social activist
There are more to come.