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 »

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 »

3/5 an MC: The Manufacturing of a Dumbed Down Rapper by Wise Intelligent

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 »

Natives: Race and Class in The Ruins of Empire by Akala

From the first time he was stopped and searched as a child, to the day he realised his mum was white, to his first encounters with racist teachers – race and class... Read more »

Asafo: A Warriors Guide to Manhood by Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti

Asafo is an in-depth Afrikan centered discussion of the requirements of Afrikan manhood. In it, Mwalimu Baruti clearly lays out African sources of power and the tools that must be acquired, mastered... Read more »

EP.058: MCE: Nationbuilding – Theory and Practice Part 2

Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS  After an arduous and acrimonious dispute with a housing contractor—oh what a crazy summer and fall—we conclude our two-part series with the multi-genius collective,... Read more »

EP.057: MCE: Nationbuilding – Theory and Practice Part 1

Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSOn this 57th episode of Conscientization 101 podcast, we present part one of a two-part dialogue with a collective of artists whose praxis embodies the... 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 »