Uncovering the African Past: The Ivan Van Sertima Papers is the third book in a trilogy by the well-known African-American scholar, Runoko Rashidi. In the...
In the eighteenth century, a small group of Black men met the challenge of the Enlightenment by mastering the arts and sciences and writing themselves...
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...
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography 2013. The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo is a 2012 biography...
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...
Creating Black Americans is a magnificent account of a past rich in beauty and creativity, but also in tragedy and trauma. Eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter...
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...
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