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 »
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 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 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 »
Where racist caricatures of African Americans once justified evils including slavery, lynching, Jim Crow, redlining and eugenics – stereotypes reinforced by mainstream Hip Hop are used to justify apartheid schooling, segregation, unequal... Read more »