The Shaping of Black America by Lerone Bennett Jr.

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 for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement by Lance Hill

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 »

We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement by Akinyele Omowale Umoja

The notion that the Civil Rights Movement in the Southern United States was a nonviolent movement remains a dominate theme of Civil Rights memory and representation in popular culture. Yet in dozens... Read more »

When We Ruled: The Ancient and Mediaeval History of Black Civilisations by Robin Walker

When We Ruled is a landmark publication superbly illustrated with high quality photographs, maps, and drawings. It provides an extraordinary and cutting-edge synthesis of the archaeological data, the documentary evidence, and the... Read more »

Sheroes of the Haitian Revolution by Bayyinah Bello (author) and Kervin Andre (illustrator)

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 »

Race First: The Ideological and Organizational Struggles of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association

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 »

Modern Africa: A Social and Political History by Basil Davidson

Basil Davidson’s Modern Africa: A Social and Political History. First published in 1983, is a social and political review of Africa’s history from the early years of the twentieth century through to... Read more »

The Making of Black Revolutionaries by James Forman

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 »

Natives: Race and Class in The Ruins of Empire by Akala

From the first time he was stopped and searched as a child, to the day he realised his mum was white, to his first encounters with racist teachers – race and class... Read more »

Distorted Truths: The Bastardization of Afrikan Cosmology by S. K. Damani Agyekum

We found out about this book while watching an interview conducted by Brother ShakaRa out of the U.K. with the distinguished elder Sababu Plata. Sababu Plata was the late great Amos Wilson’s... Read more »