Music:
Muddy Waters, Elmore James, Earl Scruggs, Big Mama Thorton, Eryah Badu, Mos Def, Jill Scott, Sade, i'm not sure how long one is expected to go on.
Movies:
A Very Long Engagement,Dr Zhivago,City of God, Amelie, House of Thousand Daggers and funniest movie ever, Harlem Nights
Television:
turns out, anything mockumentary: the office, reno 911, arrested development...
Books:
hmm anything Kafka, Dostoyevsky, Anais Nin, bell hooks, Homage to Catalonia, the Last Temptation of Christ, Barabas, White Noise, Narcissus and Goldmund
Heroes:
legacies that inspire pasion and a love for the world that does not wait for justice passively, from individuals who laid down the path to revolution: Eric Walker, Eugene Debbs, Emma Goldman, Subcommandante Marcos, Ida B. Wells, Bobby Seale, Mother Jones, Malcolm X, Huey Newton, Saul Alinsky, Ernesto Guevera