“Discovering a deeply meaningful African myth is like finding an old snapshot of myself in a place long...
Drawing on interviews with the Black survivors of Nazi concentration camps and archival research in North America, Europe,...
“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...
The Cultural Unity of Black Africa occupies a central place in Cheikh Anta Diop’s lifelong effort to reconfigure...
African Origins of the Major “Western Religions” stands as one of Yosef ben‑Jochannan’s most sustained and provocative efforts...
Meserette Kentake, founder of Kentake Page, was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, and is of Yoruba descent (mtDNA). Now based in London, she holds a BSc in Counselling Psychology but is most passionate about…
