Theodore Vincent provides valuable insight into understanding Marcus Garvey, the global breadth and depth of his influence and the origins of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). From the first paragraph, Vincent unequivocally declares that he intends to "set straight" many of the stories then surrounding Garveyites and Garveyites. He writes, "...historians have left us with an impression of Garveyism…
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…
"The Blueprint for Black Power lays forth a comprehensive strategy for the power revolution that Black people will need to survive in the twenty-first century. According to Blueprints, an African American/Caribbean/Pan-African bloc would be the most effective in generating and delivering Black power in the United States and across the world in order to challenge White and Asian power networks.…
Huey P. Newton, the founder of the Black Panther Party, tells his story in a spectacular visual presentation. Huey P. Newton's famous and oft-quoted autobiography is as much a manifesto as it is a portrayal of America's Black Panther Party's inner circle, eloquently documenting the development of a revolutionary. Revolutionary Suicide is a smart, unrepentant, and thought-provoking portrayal of inspired…
Published in 1967, The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual electrified a generation of activists and intellectuals. The product of a lifetime of struggle and reflection, Cruse's book is a singular amalgam of cultural history, passionate disputation, and deeply considered analysis of the relationship between American blacks and American society. Reviewing black intellectual life from the Harlem Renaissance through the 1960s,…
