Island in the Sun by Harry Belafonte

World famous entertainer and humanitarian Harry Belafonte's lovely, lyrical childhood recollection of Jamaica is a tender portrait tha...

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Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (33 1/3)

In the first decade of the twenty-first century, Kanye West created the most compelling body of pop music by an American artist during the...

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J Dilla's Donuts (33 1/3)

From a Los Angeles hospital bed, equipped with little more than a laptop and a stack of records, James “J Dilla” Yancey crafted a set of t...

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A Dictionary of African Mythology: The Mythmaker as Storyteller

In this marvelous collection of hundreds of fascinating, mysterious, and revealing tales, Harold Scheub captures the immense sweep and div...

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Acapella Revolution by Professor Griff

Acapella Revolution (paperback, 264 pages) is the most recent book by Professor Griff. It discusses a wide range of issues and is intersp...

5:06 PM

Before Egypt: The Maa Confederation, Africa's First Civilization by Dr. Clyde Winters

In this book Dr. Clyde Winters will discuss the history and anthropology of Africa’s first civilization : The Maa Confederation. The Maa C...

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100 Years of Lynchings

Ginzburg compiles vivid newspaper accounts from 1886 to 1960 to provide insight and understanding of the history of racial violence. 100 ...

4:57 PM

Black Economic Empowerment: Create Your Own Plan to Build Great Wealth by Robin Walker

Considering the present economic climate: Can you afford to be ignorant about money? In this book, Robin Walker explains the basic princi...

4:47 PM

Breaking the Mirror of Heaven: The Conspiracy to Suppress the Voice of Ancient Egypt

Exposes the many cycles of monument destruction and cultural suppression in Egypt from antiquity to the present day • Details the vandali...

4:43 PM

China's Cosmological Prehistory: The Sophisticated Science Encoded in Civilization's Earliest Symbols by Laird Scranton

An examination of the earliest creation traditions and symbols of China and their similarities to those of other ancient cultures • Revea...

4:40 PM

Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America

Winner of the 2007 Wesley-Logan Prize of the American Historical Association, the 2009 G. Sulzby Award of the Alabama Historical Associati...

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Ella Baker: Community Organizer of the Civil Rights Movement

Library of African American Biography series, designed to provide concise, readable, and up-to-date lives of leading black figures in Amer...

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Ella Baker: Freedom Bound

Praise for ELLA BAKER "Splendid biography ...a valuable contribution to the growing body of literature on the critical roles of women...

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Hip Hop Illuminati Book 2: Hip Hop's Role in the New World Order

In my first book, Hip Hop Illuminati, I told you how and why the Illuminati took over Hip-Hop. In this book, I will show you how the game ...

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Holocaust in the Homeland: Black Wall Street's Last Days

Holocaust in the Homeland tells the story of one of the darkest days in US history. Envious locals in Tulsa dubbed the Greenwood section &...

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The Invention of the White Race, Volume 1: Racial Oppression and Social Control by Theodore W. Allen and Jeffrey B. Perry

When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no “white” people there. Nor, according to colonial records, would there b...

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Is the White Man Still the Devil?: The Nation of Islam, (The Honorable) Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X, Myths vs Realities, an Islamic Perspective

A historical, personal, and close up look at the Nation of Islam and its founder, Elijah Muhammad, Islam, and Malcolm X. in a manner disti...

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Is Your Doctor's Medicine Killing You?: Medical Drugs That Do Not Work by Llaila O Afrika

Are you aware of the dangers of western medicine. Is your medicine cabinet full of medicine that shouldn't be there? Llaila breaks it ...

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Killing Black Innocents: The Program to Control "African American" Reproduction (from Slavery's End to the Present-Day Self-Inflicted Genocide) by Elisha J Israel

In Killing Black Innocents, Elisha J. Israel argues that throughout American history there has been an ongoing program to manipulate the r...

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Liberation, Imagination, and the Black Panther Party: A New Look at the Panthers and Their Legacy by Kathleen Cleaver

This fascinating book gathers reflections by scholars and activists who consider the impact of the Black Panther Party, the BBP, the most ...

3:46 PM

Living in the Era of Revolution: The Words of Malcolm X

Malcolm X's everlasting legacy is celebrated through his quotes, speeches and letters. Even to this day, many of his views remain rele...

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Nigger: An Autobiography by Dick Gregory

Before Richard Pryor and Dave Chappel, Steve Harvey and Chris Rock, there was Dick Gregory. He was one of the first to use comedy as a too...

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Slave Breeding: Sex, Violence, and Memory in African American History

For over two centuries, the topic of slave breeding has occupied a controversial place in the master narrative of American history. From n...

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Stolen Childhood, Second Edition: Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America (Blacks in the Diaspora) by Wilma King

One of the most important books published on slave society, Stolen Childhood focuses on the millions of children and youth enslaved in 19t...

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The African-American Ritual Cookbook by Lilith Dorsey

This is a ritual cookbook with divine recipes for love, money healing, protection, luck and more. Sample specialities from around the Afro...

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The Black Holocaust For Beginners

Virtually anyone, anywhere knows that six million Jewish human beings were killed in the Jewish Holocaust. But how many African human bein...

3:23 PM

The Maroon Within Us: Selected Essays on African American Community Socialization

Hillard examines the economic, educational, spiritual, and political aspects of the African American reality.

3:17 PM

Voices from Slavery: 100 Authentic Slave Narratives (African American)

Vivid, first-person accounts of what it was like to be a slave in the antebellum South recounted in simple, often poignant language. Stark...

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West African Contributions to Science and Technology

When West Africa is mentioned in a historical context, it is usually presented as the traditional hunting ground for slaves. Very few writ...

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Why African Americans Can't Get Ahead : And how we can solve it with Group Economics

Have you ever wondered why, despite decades of economic development, civil rights legislation and welfare programs, the economic status of...

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Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling

"Do not underestimate the power of the book you are holding in your hands." —Michelle Alexander More than 2 million people are ...

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That Old-Time Religion: The Story of Religious Foundations

This book shows how many Christian beliefs could be far older than what we have suspected. It gives a complete run-down of the stellar, lu...

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Africans In America (Immigration to the United States)

The United States is truly a nation of immigrants, or as the poet Walt Whitman once said, a "nation of nations." Spanning the ti...

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African-American Poets: 1700s-1940s

This volume focuses on the principal African-American poets from colonial times to the Harlem Renaissance and the World War II era, paying...

5:18 PM

African-American Poets, Volume 2: 1950s to the Present

This volume examines contemporary African-American poets from Robert Hayden to Rita Dove to the new voices establishing themselves at the ...

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African American Women During the Civil War

This study uses an abundance of primary sources to restore African American female participants in the Civil War to history by documenting...

5:08 PM

100 Most Popular African American Authors: Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies

Here's a one stop resource, containing 100 profiles of your favorite contemporary African American writers, along with complete lists ...

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African American Eras Library

Patterned after Gale's award-winning American Decades series. African American Eras sets are interdisciplinary sources for middle and ...

12:41 PM

The Dirty Version: On Stage, in the Studio, and in the Streets with Ol' Dirty Bastard

On the tenth anniversary of his death, The Dirty Version is the first biography of hip hop superstar and founding member of the Wu-Tang C...

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Becoming Rasta: Origins of Rastafari Identity in Jamaica

So much has been written about the Rastafari, yet we know so little about why and how people join the Rastafari movement. Although popular...

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Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans

The national bestseller that tells the truth of about Vietnam from the black soldiers' perspective. An oral history unlike any other,...

8:41 AM

Bending Toward Justice: The Voting Rights Act and the Transformation of American Democracy

When the Fifteenth Amendment of 1870 granted African Americans the right to vote, it seemed as if a new era of political equality was at h...

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Furious Cool: Richard Pryor and the World That Made Him

Richard Pryor was arguably the single most influential performer of the second half of the twentieth century, and certainly he was the mos...

8:32 AM

A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America

At the greatest moments and in the cruelest times, black women have been a crucial part of America's history. Now, the inspiring hist...

11:09 AM

Even the Stars Look Lonesome by Maya Angelou

I have written of the black American experience, which I know intimately. I am always talking about the human condition in general and abo...

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The Black Panthers: A Story of Race, War, and Courage—the 761st Tank Battalion in World War II

In a Segregated Military, the African American Armored Unit That Helped Patton Check the German Advance, Close the Rhine Ring, and Spearhe...

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Historical Dictionary of Slavery and Abolition

For almost four thousand years, men and women with power have exploited vulnerable populations for cheap or free labor. These slaves, serf...

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Dark Girls

In the tradition of the New York Times bestselling I Dream a World and Crowns comes this full-color companion volume to the acclaimed NAAC...

3:59 PM

Tales Of Dark Skinned Women: Race, Gender And Global Culture

Exploring the way race and gender are portrayed in popular culture, this text focuses on the representation of black women. It incorporate...

3:56 PM

Against Wind and Tide: The African American Struggle against the Colonization Movement

Against Wind and Tide tells the story of African American’s battle against the American Colonization Society (ACS), founded in 1816 with t...

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