Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
Afrikan children are naturally precocious and gifted. They begin life with a “natural head start.” However, their natural...
“Discovering a deeply meaningful African myth is like finding an old snapshot of myself in a place long...
Hitler’s Black Victims by Clarence Lusane is a vital, wide-ranging study of the often-overlooked lives of Black people under Nazi rule and of the longer history that made their persecution possible. Drawing...
“In all of us there is a hunger, marrow deep, to know our heritage – to know who...
Lerone Bennett Jr.’s Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America is a landmark work of popular history: expansive, assertive,...
“If there is only one book within this collection that one must read, this is it.” –Sacred Fire: The QBR 100 Essential Black Books Ayi Kwei Armah’s Two Thousand Seasons is...
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself remains one of the most...
Stolen Legacy: The Egyptian Origins of Western Philosophy, by Dr. George G. M. James, first published in 1954, asserts...
Ben Okri is a Nigerian-born British poet and novelist, widely regarded as one of the leading African writers in postmodern and postcolonial literature. His acclaimed works have earned numerous national and...
Marcus Wicker is the acclaimed author of three poetry collections: Dear Mothership (2026), Silencer (2017), and Maybe the...
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution is C. L. R. James’s pioneering interpretation of...
“Ignorant and inexperienced, it is not strange that in the first years of our new life (after [the Maafa]) we began at the top instead of at the bottom; that a...
