Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
A fascinating fusion of two literary models of the nineteenth century, the sentimental novel and the historical (slave)...
A widely read classic exposition of the history of Africans on the continent—and the people of African descent...
From Slavery to Freedom -first published in 1947 and continually updated with more than three million copies have been sold – describes the rise of slavery, the interaction of European and...
“In all of us there is a hunger, marrow deep, to know our heritage – to know who...
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: The QBR 100 Essential Black Books Ayi Kwei Armah’s Two Thousand Seasons is...
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself remains one of the most...
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...
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…
