The Maroon Within Us: Selected Essays on African American Community Socialization by Asa G. Hilliard

Our concern with the connection to our African past is really future oriented. It is not merely for sentimental or aesthetic reasons that we return. While it is true that no one... Read more »

The Urban Plantation: Racism Colonialism in the Post Civil Rights Era by Dr. Robert Staples

Published in 1987, Dr. Robert Staples’s The Urban Plantation, correctly analyzes the position of Africans in the settler colony of the United States as that of an internal/domestic colony. While this theoretical... Read more »

Slaves of the White Myth: The Psychology of Neocolonialism by Thomas Gladwin

Thomas Gladwin’s, Slaves of the White Myth: The Psychology of Neocolonialism, is an indispensable tool for decolonization. Instead of using a particular region as the basis of his analysis for studying western... 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 »

EP.060: Is Apartheid Really Dead? Redux: A Dialogue with Dr. Julian Kunnie – Part 2 of 3

Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | iHeartRadio | Blubrry | Podchaser | RSS | MoreIn part two of our illuminating series with Dr. Julian... 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 »

EP.059: Is Apartheid Really Dead? Redux: A Dialogue with Dr. Julian Kunnie Part 1 of 3

Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | iHeartRadio | Blubrry | Podchaser | RSS | MoreIt has been over 20 years since the publication of... 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 »

From Dessalines to Duvalier: Race, Colour and National Independence in Haiti by David Nicholls

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 »