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 »

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 »

Black and Gold: Tycoons, Revolutionaries and Apartheid by Anthony Sampson

In Black and Gold, Anthony Sampson provides an original insight into the critical frontier of apartheid South Africa – the relationship between international big business and the Black political movements on which... Read more »

To Educate A People: Thoughts From the Center by Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti

Self-control is a considerable indicator of maturity. In a state of war where close proximity exists between friend and foe, silence can be considered one of the most important of these values.... Read more »

Free the Land: The Republic of New Afrika and the Pursuit of a Black Nation-State (Justice, Power, and Politics) by Edward Onaci

On March 31, 1968, over 500 Black nationalists convened in Detroit to begin the process of securing independence from the United States. Many concluded that Black Americans’ best remaining hope for liberation... Read more »
Conscientization 101 Podcast Ep.042-Cyclonious The Revival Pt 2

EP.042: Cyclonious The Revival Part 2

We closeout 2017, 2017 according to the Gregorian/Western calendar, with the conclusion of our two part series, Cyclonious: The Revival. Read more »