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 »

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 »

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 »

EP.061: Is Apartheid Really Dead? Redux: A Dialogue with Dr. Julian Kunnie – Part 3 of 3

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

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 Great Fear: The Reconquest of Latin America by Latin Americans by John Gerassi

John Gerassi first came to our attention when we read our dear and distinguished Afrikan revolutionary ancestor George L. Jackson’s magnum opus and revolutionary treatise Blood in My Eye (see page 181).... 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 »