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....
Category : Books
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...
The Black Jacobins
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution is C. L. R. James’s pioneering interpretation of the Haitian Revolution as both the first...
Up From Slavery
“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...
The Cultural Unity of Black Africa
The Cultural Unity of Black Africa occupies a central place in Cheikh Anta Diop’s lifelong effort to reconfigure how Africa is seen in the story...
African Origins of Major “Western Religions”
African Origins of the Major “Western Religions” stands as one of Yosef ben‑Jochannan’s most sustained and provocative efforts to re‑inscribe Africa at the heart of...