Hitler’s Black Victims
Drawing on interviews with the Black survivors of Nazi concentration camps and archival research in North America, Europe, and Africa, Hitler’s Black Victims by Clarence Lusane, documents and...
Author : Meserette Kentake
Roots
“In all of us there is a hunger, marrow deep, to know our heritage – to know who we are and where we came from....
Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America
Before the Mayflower by Lerone Bennett Jr. traces black history from its origins in western Africa, through the transatlantic journey that ended in slavery, the...
Two Thousand Seasons
“If there is only one book within this collection that one must read, this is it.” –Sacred Fire: The QBR 100 Essential Black Books “That...
Stolen Legacy
Stolen Legacy: The Egyptian Origins of Western Philosophy, by Dr. George G. M. James, first published in 1954 asserts that Greek philosophy is stolen Egyptian...
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Born into the Maafa (slavery) in Maryland circa 1817, Frederick Douglass went on to become the most influential and distinguished African American of the nineteenth...
I Held You in the Square by Ben Okri
I Held You in the Square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile. The dreams I could never touch Felt like your body....
The Way We Were Made by Marcus Wicker
But you made every delicate, elegant wrist & glistening ankle. But you made them beautiful in braided rope & dime store gold. But you made...
The Black Jacobins
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C. L. R. James is a classical study of the only successful slave revolt in...
Up From Slavery
“Ignorant and inexperienced, it is not strange that in the first years of our new life (after slavery) we began at the top instead of...