When wealthy Mississippi cotton planter Isaac Ross died in 1836, his will decreed that his plantation, Prospect Hill, should be liquidat...
Friday, July 31, 2015
The Unspoken Alliance: Israel's Secret Relationship with ApartheidSouth Africa
Prior to the Six-Day War, Israel was a darling of the international left, vocally opposed to apartheid and devoted to building alliances ...
The Triangle: A Year on the Ground with New York's Bloods and Crips
The Linden Triangle: Linden Avenue and Linden Place, Hempstead, Long Island. At this blighted intersection, seemingly forgotten by the mid...
The Slave Trade (Slavery in the Americas)
The transatlantic slave trade forcibly brought thousands of Africans to the Americas. In doing so, it impacted peoples and cultures acro...
Life Under Slavery (Slavery in the Americas)
When the African people were first brought to the New World, estranged from their homeland, they adapted their native rituals, religions, ...
"Or Does It Explode?": Black Harlem in the Great Depression
The Great Depression was a time of hardship for many Americans, but for the citizens of Harlem it was made worse by past and present discr...
Thursday, July 30, 2015
Black Bourgeoisie: The Book That Brought the Shock of Self-Revelationto Middle-Class Blacks in America
A classic analysis of the Black middle class studies its origin and development, accentuating its behavior, attitudes, and values during ...
Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Of Africa by Wole Soyinka
A member of the unique generation of African writers and intellectuals who came of age in the last days of colonialism, Wole Soyinka has ...
Glorying in Tribulation: The Life Work of Sojourner Truth
In Glorying in Tribulation, Stetson presents a new dimension of Sojourner Truth's character. Much of the information regarding this o...
Madame C. J. Walker (Life Skills Biographies)
A biography of the African American businesswoman whose invention of facial creams and other cosmetics led to great financial success and...
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
Presenting a corrective to the popular notion of Rosa Parks as the quiet seamstress who, with a single act, birthed the modern civil righ...
Trayvon Martin, Race, and American Justice: Writing Wrong
Trayvon Martin, Race, and "American Justice": Writing Wrong is the first comprehensive text to analyze not only the killing of ...
Emperor Shaka the Great: A Zulu Epic
Tells how the Zulu's themselves view their empire, both in the past and the present. Download Link
Who Was the Hair-Care Millionaire? Madam C. J. Walker
Lots of people dream of being a millionaire, but Madam C. J. Walker actually became one with her revolutionary hair care system. Learn a...
Legal History of the Color Line: The Rise and Triumph of the One-DropRule
Every Year, 35,000 Black-Born Youngsters Redefine Themselves as White. About 1/3 of "White" Americans have detectable African D...
African American Women and the Vote, 1837-1965
Written by leading scholars of African American and women's history, the essays in this volume seek to reconceptualize the political...
Monday, July 27, 2015
Slavery in the Arab World
"...A comprehensive portrait of slavery in the Islamic world from earliest times until today..."–Arab Book World Download L...
Sunday, July 26, 2015
Faith of Our Fathers: An Examination of the Spiritual Life of Africanand African-American People by Mumia Abu Jaml
From the founding legends of Abyssinia’s royal house to the hidden "hush harbors" of black captives in the America’s southland,...
The Classroom and the Cell: Conversations on Black Life in America by Mumia Abu Jamal
This collection of conversations between celebrity intellectual Marc Lamont Hill and famed political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal is a shinin...
Autobiography/Biography
Black Panther Party
Black Power
Political Prisoners
Prison Industrial Complex
racism
Live from Death Row by Mumia Abu Jamal
Once a prominent radio reporter, Mumia Abu-Jamal is now in a Pennsylvania prison awaiting his state-sactioned execution. In 1982 he was c...
Towards Colonial Freedom: Africa in the Struggle Against World Imperialism By Kwame Nkrumah
This book is about Africa’s struggle against world imperialism. This classic title was completed in 1945. In the words of the author, Kw...
Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom
In this previously untold story of African American self-education, Heather Andrea Williams moves across time to examine African American...
Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports And Why We're Afraid To TalkAbout It
In virtually every sport in which they are given opportunity to compete, people of African descent dominate. East Africans own every dist...
The New Plantation: Black Athletes, College Sports, and PredominantlyWhite NCAA Institutions
The New Plantation examines the controversial relationship between Black athletes and predominantly White NCAA Division I Institutions (P...
Black Business in the New South: A Social History of the NC Mutual LifeInsurance Company
At the turn of the century, the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company became the "world's largest Negro business." ...
Origins of the Civil Rights Movements
On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Mrs. Rosa Parks, weary after a long day at work, refused to give up her bus seat to a white m...
Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried toDestroy the Civil Rights Movement
The Spies of Mississippi is a compelling story of how state spies tried to block voting rights for African Americans during the Civil Rig...
Saturday, July 25, 2015
African History
Apartheid South Africa
black history
Black Power
Civil Rights Movement
Mau Mau
racism
Proudly We Can Be Africans: Black Americans and Africa, 1935-1961
The mid-twentieth century witnessed nations across Africa fighting for their independence from colonial forces. By examining black Americ...
Adam of Ife: Black Women in Praise of Black Men
This ground-breaking anthology of poetry contains an informative foreword by the editor, Naomi Long Madgett, which traces the historical i...
Thomas Sankara: An African Revolutionary
Thomas Sankara, often called the African Che Guevara, was president of Burkina Faso, one of the poorest countries in Africa, until his a...
The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop--andWhy It Matters
Hip-hop is in crisis. For the past dozen years, the most commercially successful hip-hop has become increasingly saturated with caricatur...
black history
black hollywood
Black Power
black women
Civil Rights Movement
Economics
Literature
medical science
Music
Politics
science
Sports
Brave Black Women: From Slavery to the Space Shuttle
Writing especially for students in grades four through eight, Ruthe Winegarten and Sharon Kahn trace the history of black women from sla...
The Jim Crow Laws and Racism in United States History
Highlighting the efforts of both blacks and whites to promote racial equality in the face of violent attempts to preserve white supremacy,...
To Die for the People
Long an iconic figure for radicals, Huey Newton is now being discovered by those interested in the history of America’s social movements....
Freedoms Given, Freedoms Won: Afro-Brazilians in Post-Abolition SãoPaolo and Salvador
Freedoms Given, Freedoms Won explores the ways Afro-Brazilians in two major cities adapted to the new conditions of life after the aboli...
Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad
The Horn Book called this classic biography of Harriet Tubman an "unusually well-written and moving life of the 'Moses of her pe...
The New H.N.I.C.: The Death of Civil Rights and the Reign of Hip Hop
“Those who are hip have always known that Black music is about more than simply nodding your head, snapping your fingers, and patting you...
Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era
In this pathbreaking book, Dan Berger offers a bold reconsideration of twentieth century black activism, the prison system, and the origi...
Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington and Africa, 1959-1976
A sweeping Cold War history that challenges views of Cuba's involvement in African liberation struggles; This is a compelling account ...
LAbyrinth: A Detective Investigates the Murders of Tupac Shakur andNotorious B.I.G., the Implication of Death Row Records' Suge Knight,and the Origins of the Los Angeles Police Scandal
Acclaimed journalist Randall Sullivan follows Russell Poole, a highly decorated LAPD detective who in 1997 was called to investigate a co...
Friday, July 24, 2015
Beaches, Blood, and Ballots: A Black Doctor's Civil Rights Struggle
This book, the first to focus on the integration of the Gulf Coast, is Dr. Gilbert R. Mason's eyewitness account of harrowing episode...
African Art: Its Background and Traditions
The many dimensions of African art are explored, aong with illustrations and explanations of various examples of tribal art, against thei...
African American
black history
Black Panther Party
Black Power
Civil Rights Movement
nation of islam
racism
UNIA
Black Power Ideologies: An Essay in African-American Political Thought
In a systematic survey of the manifestations and meaning of Black Power in America, John McCartney analyzes the ideology of the Black Pow...
The Death and Life of Malcolm X
The Death and Life of Malcolm X provides a dramatic portrait of one of the most important black leaders of the twentieth century. Focusing...
Race and Slavery in Nineteenth-century Egypt, Sudan and the OttomanMediterranean: Histories of Trans-Saharan Africans
In the nineteenth century hundreds of thousands of Africans were forcibly migrated northward to Egypt and other eastern Mediterranean dest...
Wednesday, July 22, 2015
The Underground Railroad in Connecticut
Here are the engrossing facts about one of the least-known movements in Connecticut’s history—the rise, organization, and operations of th...
Black Entertainers in African American Newspaper Articles
For the first half of the twentieth century, the best coverage of blacks in entertainment--especially the developing motion picture indust...
Monday, July 20, 2015
Ludacris: Hip-Hop Mogul (Hip-Hop Moguls)
Ludacris knew from a young age that he wanted to work in the music industry. But while most rappers don’t usually go this route, attending...
Becoming American: The African-American Journey
Far too many Americans, of all races, are unaware of the pivotal role that people of African descent have played in shaping the US and th...
Sunday, July 19, 2015
Justice in America: The Separate Realities of Blacks and Whites
Whites and African Americans in the United States inhabit two different perceptual worlds, with the former seeing the justice system as la...
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