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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
In Book Three: Perfecting Tyranny, Mumia Abu-Jamal and Stephen Vittoria continue their epic recounting of the history—and present reality—of the United States. This volume challenges the acceptance of some of the most... Read more »