Rarely does conversation with the insane, who are desperately committed to the maintenance and spread of their insanity, move them in the direction of balanced reason. Almost always, the opposite occurs. They... Read more »
Carter G. Woodson’s The Mis-Education of the Negro has to be the most quoted and misquoted, unread book by Africans from the United States. Really, how many of you have heard the... Read more »
Lerone Bennett Jr.’s The Shaping of Black America is an assiduous work detailing the history of African people in the United States. Beginning with a well-documented account of our first steps in... Read more »
The Deacons’ strength was that they were the only southern wide organization created and controlled by the black working class during the civil rights movement. It is no coincidence that it was... Read more »
Most stories and books written about the Haitian Revolution mainly focus on the men that fought in that war and almost never mention the valuable contributions of women during that period. Women... Read more »
This book has the important element that is missing in most of books and articles on Garvey—a political analysis of what the Garvey Movement was about. –Dr. John Henrik Clarke Revolutionary Pan-Africanist... Read more »
John Gerassi first came to our attention when we read our dear and distinguished Afrikan revolutionary ancestor George L. Jackson’s magnum opus and revolutionary treatise Blood in My Eye (see page 181).... Read more »
Soon after the summer of 1966, the council was disbanded. By this time revolutionary blacks were no longer trying to maintain any façade of unity. The “civil rights” phase of our struggle... Read more »
In this lively, provocative, and well-documented history, David Nicholls discusses the impact of “color” on the political relationship between the black majority and the mulatto elite during almost two hundred years of... Read more »
Where racist caricatures of African Americans once justified evils including slavery, lynching, Jim Crow, redlining and eugenics – stereotypes reinforced by mainstream Hip Hop are used to justify apartheid schooling, segregation, unequal... Read more »