Hole In The Head: A Life Revealed
Hole In The Head: A Life Revealed by Wilbert Smith, based on the award-winning documentary, is a compelling, highly moving, human-interest story that vividly conveys...
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells—taken without her knowledge in 1951—became...
The 1910 Slocum Massacre: An Act of Genocide in East Texas
In late July 1910, a shocking number of African Americans in Texas were slaughtered by white mobs in the Slocum area of Anderson County and...
Capitalism and Slavery
Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and...
Black Man of the Nile
Black Man of the Nile and His Family, first published in 1972, is Dr. Ben’s best known work. It captures much of the substance of...
Nile Valley Contribution to Civilization
“The civilization of Egypt, and of Africa in general, is the most written about and the least understood of all known subjects. This is no...
Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: Slavery and the Rise of European Capitalism
“The Middle Passge. Our Holocaust. It is our holocaust because this is a holocaust that started 500 years ago and it is not over. We...
Civilization or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology
In Civilization or Barbarism, Cheikh Anta Diop offers an intelligent and fact-based reinterpretation of the false doctrines put forth by white European racists in the 19th century....
The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality
This Classic presents historical, archaeological, and anthropological evidence to support the theory that ancient Egypt was a Black civilization. The African Origin of Civilization: Myth...
Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire
Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empires, written over a twenty-five-year period and published in 1926, represents the crowning achievement of Drusilla Dunjee Houston’s literary life. With...