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...
Mdw Ntr Divine Speech: A Historiographical Reflection Of African Deep Thought From The Time Of The Pharaohs To The Present
Each of the essays in Mdw Ntr Divine Speech: A Historiographical Reflection Of African Deep Thought From The Time Of The Pharaohs To The Present by...
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...
The Cultural Unity of Black Africa
The Cultural Unity of Black Africa is a profound contribution to the universal store of knowledge in that it situates the geographical and cultural origins...
African Origins of Major “Western Religions”
African Origins of the Major “Western Religions” first published in 1970, continues to be one of Dr. Ben’s most thought-provoking works. This critical examination of...