Browsing Category

Books

Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby, is an expansive and compelling anthology of words and writings by...

David Imhotep’s The First Americans Were Africans: Documented Evidence begins by challenging the stories through which many readers...

Marimba Ani’s book, “Yurugu: An African-Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior,” published in 1994, is widely regarded as her magnum opus. The book is a comprehensive “cultural science” project that unmasks the...

Tony Browder’s From The Browder File: 22 Essays on the African American Experience is a compact but purposeful...

Hitler’s Black Victims by Clarence Lusane is a vital, wide-ranging study of the often-overlooked lives of Black people under...

“In all of us there is a hunger, marrow deep, to know our heritage – to know who we are and where we came from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is...

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:...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself remains one of the most forceful autobiographies in United States literature. First published in 1845, while Douglass was...

Stolen Legacy: The Egyptian Origins of Western Philosophy, by Dr. George G. M. James, first published in 1954, asserts...

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...