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 »
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 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »