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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »