Destiny and Race: Selected Writings, 1840-1898

A major 19th-century reformer and intellectual, Alexander Crummell (1819-1898) was the first black American to receive a degree from Camb...

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A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story

Brown's account of her life at the highest levels of the Black Panther party's hierarchy. More than a journey through a turbulent...

10:03 AM

Message to the People: The Course of African Philosophy

In September 1937, three years before his death, Marcus Garvey assembled a small group of his most trusted organizers. For almost a quart...

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A Voice From The South : A Black Woman from the South

Considered one of the original texts foretelling the black feminist movement, this collection of essays, first published in 1892, offers...

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Anna Julia Cooper and Black Women's Intellectual Tradition

Anna Julia Cooper was born a slave on the eve of the Civil War. She earned Bachelors and Masters degrees in the 1880s and a Doctorate from...

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Black Power in the Caribbean

“An altogether path-breaking collection of riveting essays.”—Robert A. Hill, Editor in Chief of The Marcus Garvey & UNIA Papers “A fa...

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The Complete Muhammad Ali

Including material and photographs not included in most of the 100 other books about the champion, Ishmael Reed’s The Complete Muhammad Al...

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The Culture War in the Civil Rights Movement

From Aretha Franklin and James Baldwin to Dick Gregory and Martin Luther King, the civil rights movement deliberately used music, art, the...

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The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics

Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey (1887–1940) organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Harlem in 1917. By the early 1920s, h...

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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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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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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 ...

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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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Black Prophetic Fire by Cornel West

An unflinching look at nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American leaders and their visionary legacies. In an accessible, convers...

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Youth, Nationalism, and the Guinean Revolution

In 1958, Guinea declared independence from France and propelled Ahmed Sékou Touré to power. Early revolutionary fervor was not to last, an...

6:33 AM

Black Identity: Rhetoric, Ideology, and Nineteenth-Century Black Nationalism

Dexter B. Gordon’s Black Identity: Rhetoric, Ideology, and Nineteenth-Century Black Nationalism explores the problem of racial alienation ...

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The Threat of Liberation: Imperialism and Revolution in Zanzibar by Amrit Wilson

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Dreaming Blackness: Black Nationalism and African American Public Opinion

Black Nationalism is one of the oldest and most enduring ideological constructs developed by African Americans to make sense of their so...

8:27 AM

Youth, Nationalism, and the Guinean Revolution

In 1958, Guinea declared independence from France and propelled Ahmed Sékou Touré to power. Early revolutionary fervor was not to last, an...

8:00 AM

Zimbabwean Nationalism and the Rise of Robert Mugabe by Mark Francis Riley

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