Jubilee
Jubilee (1966) is a historical novel written by Margaret Walker, which focuses on the story of a biracial enslaved woman during the American Civil War. It...
Category : The QBR 100
Africa Must Unite
“Dr. Kwame Nkrumah begins Africa Must Unite with the words freedom, hedsole, sawaha, uhuru: the slogans of what he calls “the greatest political phenomenon of the latter...
David Walker’s Appeal
David Walker’s Appeal is an uncompromising African-centered discourse that attacks whyte injustice and advocates Black self-reliance. Its publication in 1830 intensified the debate and struggle...
The Spook Who Sat by the Door
An explosive, award-winning novel in the Black literary tradition, The Spook Who Sat by the Door is both a satire of the civil rights problems...
Our Nig: or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
A fascinating fusion of two literary models of the nineteenth century, the sentimental novel and the historical (slave) narrative, Our Nig, apart from its historical...
The Destruction of Black Civilization
A widely read classic exposition of the history of Africans on the continent—and the people of African descent in the United States and in the...
From Slavery to Freedom
From Slavery to Freedom -first published in 1947 and continually updated with more than three million copies have been sold – describes the rise of...
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...