Street Prophet:Carrying Fred Hampton's Unfinished Sermon

From the Delta's dead-end streets to the global stage, one voice dares to finish a sermon power tried to silence.

Street Prophet Carrying Fred Hampton's Unfinished Sermon is a blistering, deeply human, and rigorously argued blueprint for liberation. JM Yellaboy Alexander fuses lived witness with political economy to reveal America's "internal colony" in full: the algorithmic patrols and predictive heat maps that criminalize poverty before it breathes, the carceral marketplace that turns neighbors into inventory, and the platform capitalism that rebrands sharecropping as a side hustle. Born of a Mississippi breaking—bones shattered, future discounted—and forged in brotherhood, recovery, and Rainbow Coalition praxis, Alexander translates pain into method: dual power, revolutionary love, and the Hampton Method of education, breakfast, and defense. The result is part memoir, part movement manual, and wholly unapologetic—naming the fake economy's poisons (the hustle, the hype, the hole) while charting a real economy rooted in mutual aid, co-ops, community land trusts, and transformative justice.

With the cadence of a street sermon and the precision of a seminar, Alexander walks readers from 11th Street's code of survival to the global panopticon of COINTELPRO 2.0, from the school-to-prison pipeline's metal detectors to the gig economy's algorithmic overseers. He reframes whiteness as a ruling-class wage to be refused, honors the lost and the discarded as keepers of prophetic wisdom, and insists that hope is not a feeling but a discipline practiced in gardens, clinics, free schools, and breakfast lines. If you've ever wondered how to turn swagger into solidarity, hurt into hardware, and data into defense—how to live the new world in the shell of the old—this book hands you the map, the method, and the mandate.

Bold, raw, and field-tested, Street Prophet is a call to decolonize the mind, reclaim the body, and build the Rainbow—brick by brick, meal by meal, chapter by chapter—until survival becomes freedom and the sermon finishes itself in the hands of the people.

Readers of Angela Y. Davis, Eddie S. Glaude Jr., and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor will be galvanized by this book.