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...
Before the Mayflower by Lerone Bennett Jr. traces black history from its origins in western Africa, through the...
“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 we the Black people are one...
Stolen Legacy: The Egyptian Origins of Western Philosophy, by Dr. George G. M. James, first published in 1954...
Born into the Maafa (slavery) in Maryland circa 1817, Frederick Douglass went on to become the most influential...
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 great Black revolution of the modern...
“Ignorant and inexperienced, it is not strange that in the first years of our new life (after [the...
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…
