100 Years of Lynchings, first published in 1962, is as relevant today as it was then. It provides vivid newspaper articles of a "red record of racial atrocities." to the reader. It is a straightforward and easy-to-understand presentation. The news stories speak for themselves because there is no narrative. We witness a history of racial horrors through them that we…
Gerald Massey, an intellectual and freethinker, turned his considerable study in the subject of Egyptology into A Book of the Beginnings, a daring declaration that ancient Egypt is the genesis of all civilisation. His claims, which were revolutionary at the time—nearly a century before the finding of three-million-year-old human remains in Africa—resonate loudly now, as molecular biology makes matching discoveries…
Dr. Ben debunks stereotypes about the inferiority and primitiveness of indigenous African peoples and their descendants in a lecture/essay style. Here's where you can get Africa, Mother of Western Civilization.
Osei investigates African contributions to the arts, sciences, philosophy, and religion. He does it by chronicling and weaving a historical framework. Osei was a self-taught historian who was well-versed in a wide range of books and papers regarding ancient and modern Africa.
It was first published in 1954, at a time when there were few publications on African history written by Africans. The book was written in response to conventional and frequently racist histories of Africa. It was an intimate history of Africa and its ancient civilizations. African Glory continues to provide a vivid and dynamic connection to the African past half…
This classic, now in its 30th printing, help in analyzing, archaeological, and anthropological evidence for the notion t hat ancient Egypt was a black culture.
The Black Classic Press Contemporary Lecture Series begins with Dr. John Henrik Clarke's African People in World History. The ideas voiced by notable modern intellectuals and essayists are published in this series. Dr. Clarke is both of these things. He is a Hunter College Professor Emeritus in African World History. He has committed his life as a historian, educator, and…
Gerald Massey's first two Egyptology series flipped conventional wisdom on its head, arguing that Egypt not only founded human civilization, but that Egyptian mythology formed the foundation for Jewish and Christian beliefs. Ancient Egypt: The Light of the World is Massey's crown treasure, the culmination of his years of scholarly effort. Massey, ever the intrepid escort, leads a tour through…
Ancient Future honors the knowledge of ancient civilizations who did not separate the intellectual, spiritual, and physical aspects of existence. This book is an attempt to recreate this holistic experience in the hopes of realizing a holistic picture of life in the twenty-first century.
The author flipped the hagiography of many prior American historians on its head in this landmark work. Unlike those writers who emphasized idealistic impulses as a role in defining the framework of American government, Beard questioned the Founding Fathers' objectives in crafting the Constitution and saw the outcome as a product of economic self-interest.
While much is known about the anti-slavery movement's white participants, the black abolitionists have received less attention. This book, authored by one of the country's foremost black historians, corrects the record. As Benjamin Quarles demonstrates, blacks in the abolitionist movement were far from quiet. Many of the abolitionists were black; scores of black preachers and authors actively advocated the cause;…
The author traces the rise of this enigmatic class from the segregated South to the postwar boom in the integrated North, demonstrating how, along the way to what appeared to be prosperity and progress, middle-class blacks lost touch with their traditional black roots while never receiving recognition from the white sector. According to Frazier, the consequence is an odd bourgeois…
The first book by Dr. Anderson is a classic. It examines how slavery and Jim Crow regulations were utilized to build a powerful nation using black labor. It describes how black people were socially molded into the bottom level in a real-life Monopoly game, one in which they are neither playing nor winning. Black Labor is a detailed examination of…
Only a few days before the author's death, Blood In My Eye was completed. During an attempted attempted escape, George Jackson was killed by San Quentin prison guards on August 21, 1971. George Jackson was convicted of stealing $70 from a petrol station at the age of eighteen and was sentenced to one year to life in prison. He was…
Dutty Boukman joins forces with Cecile Fatiman to tap into the energies of African spirituality and lead the early slave revolts of the Haitian Revolution after being sold by his slave master in Jamaica to a slaver in Saint Domingue (colonial Haiti). Boukman would be recognized as the spark that ignited the only successful Black Revolution, as the rebellious Africans…
Slavery aided in the funding of England's Industrial Revolution. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants involved in the slave trade amassed large riches, which were used to construct banks and heavy industry in Europe, as well as spread capitalism's reach globally. In his 1944 book Capitalism and Slavery, Eric Williams articulated these important concepts. His insightful analysis, which was years ahead…
David Walker's Appeal is a resolutely African-centered rhetoric that criticizes white injustice and promotes Black self-reliance. Its release in 1830 heightened the discussion and opposition against slavery. The Appeal is a foundational document from which many present topics in Black political philosophy have grown. It is more than a protest against slavery.
Chancellor Williams spent sixteen years researching and field studying The Destruction of Black Civilization. The book was supposed to be ""a universal struggle against the covert message from even the most 'liberal' white authors (and their Negro disciples): 'You belong to a race of nobodies.'" You have no significant history to be proud of.'" " The book was published at…
"Cheikh Anta Diop has posed the question of whether the African philosophical tradition may serve as a model for a philosophy that is more sensitive to human needs than the many messages offered by European philosophy. This book is unquestionably a contribution to that endeavor. What one discovers here is not only a significant challenge to the Eurocentric interpretation of…
From Columbus to Castro: The Caribbean's History is about 30 million people scattered across an arc of islands—Jamaica, Haiti, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda, Antigua and Barbuda, Martinique, Trinidad, and others—separated by the languages and cultures of their colonizers but bound together by a common heritage. The nationality of their rulers has made only a theoretical difference to the peoples of…
The only successful slave revolt in history, Haiti: The First Black Republic is a stunning study on the interesting events of the Haitian Revolution. This comprehensive narrative of how Haiti resisted French colonial control, destroyed three great powers' armies, and earned independence is a must-read for all Haitians and history buffs.
The decisiveness of colonialism's brief reign and its bad implications for Africa stem mostly from Africa's loss of power. Power is the ultimate determinant in human society , as it is fundamental to all group and intergroup connections. It entails the ability to protect one's interests and, if necessary, enforce one's will using whatever methods at hand. The question of…
This book documents changes in women's home reproduction, legal status, and gender roles that occurred during colonial authority, based on rare oral evidence from women participants in the Mau Mau insurrection.
This book portrays African Americans' strengths, shortcomings, achievements, and blunders in a Black history textbook that extends beyond "Negro" to African history. It includes exam questions and vocabulary exercises, and it is beautifully illustrated.
After ten years of introspection following his formal liberation in 1846 and his separation with his mentor William Lloyd Garrison, ex-slave Frederick Douglass's second autobiography thrust him into the international limelight as the leading advocate for American blacks, both free and slave. My Bondage and My Freedom was written during Frederick Douglass' illustrious career as a speaker and newspaper editor,…
The New Humanity; Shackles; The Cultural Continuum; The Truth of Liars; Inner Vision; Black Capital; Racism, Colorism, and Power; blacks; I Am Not Ashamed; Dedication to an Afrikan; and Voices in the Tradition of the Afrikan Warrior are among the eleven articles included in this book.
Tony Browder's book, Nile Valley Contributions To Civilization, aims to dispel some of these myths so that the reader may learn more about the Nile Valley Civilizations and its significance as the cradle of future civilizations.
IN ETHIOPIAN HISTORY, PILLARS, Volume I of William Leo Hansberry's African History Notebook Joseph E. Harris edited the book. The four pieces in Volume I, better defined as narrative histories, are taken from William Leo Hansberry's private documents and decode and extract the foundations of Ethiopia's unity from the tangle of myth, folklore, and bogus historical material.
On January 20, 1973, Portuguese agents killed Amilcar Cabral, the Secretary-General of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and the Cape Verde Islands (PAIGC). In fewer than 10 years of revolutionary struggle, the PAIGC freed three-quarters of Guinea's countryside under his leadership. Cabral stood out among modern revolutionaries for the extensive and meticulous preparation, both theoretical and practical,…
Sieze The Time is Bobby Seale's gripping first-person narrative of the emergence of The Black Panther Party as a national organization. Seale is a veteran activist and co-founder of The Black Panther Party. The book "...continues to have a universal apppeal as an account of an oppressed people's struggle for human liberation." according to Seale.
Shaka, the legendary Zulu warrior and chief, had a passionate past. Osei takes us on a journey from his poor beginnings and challenging youth to his ascension to become one of Africa's and the world's most powerful leaders.
Soledad Brother is a collection of Jackson's prison letters that is an outspoken denunciation of white America's racism and a scathing evaluation of the prison system that failed to crush his spirit but ultimately stole his life. The tremendous sentiments of rage and revolt that flooded America's jails in the 1960s are tangible in Jackson's writings. Even in the absence…
This uncompromising classic challenges the concept that civilisation began in Greece, attempting to demonstrate that the original inventors of Greek philosophy were Egyptians, not Greeks. The poem contends that the acclaim and glory that have been lavished on the Greeks for millennia belong to the people of Africa, and that the theft of this magnificent African inheritance has led to…
The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was the most effective grassroots black revolutionary group in American history — but one whose legend, replayed in sensationalized news stories, a major movie, and countless publications, has outlived the group itself. Featuring never-before-published reflections from former members as well as tables and illustrations, this pioneering collection of essays examines this unique organization in…
The COINTELPRO Papers will provide meat for anxieties — as well as recommendations for activity — for anyone concerned about civil rights under George W. Bush. Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall's expose of the FBI, America's political police organization, uncovers the steel fist behind the velvet glove of "compassionate conservatism's" The writers examine the FBI's handling of the left,…
Delany's separatist beliefs are presented in The Condition, Elevation, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States (1852). This work is considered by many researchers of African American political philosophy to be the first printed expression of black nationalism. Its breadth, however, is far larger than this single concentration suggests. It is the first book-length assessment of black…
"[Exposes] the role Eurocentric history-writing plays in rationalizing European oppression of Afrikan peoples and in the falsification of Afrikan consciousness ... [and contends] that the alleged mental and behavioral maladaptiveness of oppressed Afrikan peoples is a political-economic necessity for the maintenance of White domination and imperialism." —From the back cover.
"Dr. David Imhotep delivers a passionate, innovative, and thorough case for a radical rewriting of conventional history in The First Americans Were Africans. The book aroused, amused, and fascinated me, and it opens up many intriguing options for thought."
Race vindication has long been a prominent issue in the minds of African-Americans in the United States... The Haitian Revolution was viewed as a manifestation of race redemption in early conceptualizations of this consciousness in the second decade of the nineteenth century... In his acceptance speech for the office of Governor General for Life of the newly Independent Black Nation,…
"This work studies Haiti at a pivotal juncture in its history, using the Haitian Revolution as a case study example, to investigate the significance of consciousness and identity in the country's liberation fight and construction of nationhood. Black psychology is used to analyze not only the Haitian mind in struggle, but the African mind battling for freedom across the world,…
This book tries to stitch together the fabric of global culture that the Europeans purposefully shredded. As a result of their destruction of world culture's black threads, all people, especially African-Americans, regard and despise us.
One of the most important works on education ever published is The Mis-Education of the Negro. Carter G. Woodson demonstrates the flaws of Eurocentric curriculums that ignore African American history and culture. This system miseducates African American students, failing to prepare them for success and providing them with a sufficien t understanding of who they are within the system in…
This is the classic history of African peoples in Africa and the New World, a debunking of the erroneous post-Civil War assumption that Africans had no civilization beyond the one imposed on them by their slave traders. DuBois, one of America's greatest writers, lays out in easy-to-read, nonacademic prose the striking and illustrious story of Africa's complex history and varied…
The Osiris Papers: Reflections on the Life and Writings of Dr. Frances Cress Welsing is the first in a series of treatises examining Dr. Frances Cress Welsing's life, theories, and achievements. Some of these works will be hagiographic in nature. Some may be critical, but all will contribute to our knowledge of one of Africa's finest intellectuals in the last…
"Self-hatred has profound historical origins that may be traced all the way back to colonial history in the fifteenth century and beyond. Amos Wilson traces the history of slavery from biblical antiquity, with the curse of Ham in the Old Testament, through the Middle Ages, enslavement, Jim Crow sadism, and up to the present day. This experience has had a…
This is the chronicle of Black Africa's oppression and the enslavement of its people in another country. Harding resurrects long-forgotten heroes and chronicles their descendants' fight to preserve the spirit and dreams of an uprooted nation.
They Came Before Columbus is a captivating, dramatic, and well documented account of Africans' presence and legacy in ancient America. Ivan Van Sertima builds a pyramid of evidence to support his claim of an African presence in the New World centuries before Columbus by looking at navigation and shipbuilding, cultural analogies between Native Americans and Africans, the transportation of plants,…
"Up From Slavery" is an autobiography of Booker T. Washington's life and accomplishments, which has inspired all Americans. As he moves from ex-slave to teacher and creator of one of the most prominent institutions for African Americans in the south, The Tuskegee Industrial Institute, Washington expresses his innermost feelings.
An overview of African or Black history that is comprehensive, critical, and balanced. There has never been a better overall treatise on the ancient and medieval history of Black people. In addition to an amazing and cutting-edge synthesis of archaeological data, documentary evidence, and historical linguistic research, the book is lavishly illustrated with high-quality images, maps, and drawings.
Our plot will revolve on the ancient Ethiopian Cushite kingdom, which spanned three continents and ruled for three thousand years. We shall travel to ancient Ethiopia, where "the gods delighted to banquet with the pious inhabitants." as Herodotus put it. We shall look at the history of the region and the ancient people. The "Old Race," which Petrie discovered in…
Yurugu dismantles the European mask and unveils the underlying workings of global white supremacy, a system that ensures Europe's and her successors' domination over the vast majority of the world's peoples. From an African viewpoint, examines the impact of European culture on the construction of contemporary institutional frameworks via colonialism and imperialism.
