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...

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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...

9:30 AM

Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael(Kwame Ture)

Head of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. Honorary prime minister of the Black Panther Party. Bestselling author. Stokely C...

6:39 AM

Black American Money by Dr. Boyce Watkins

In this book, Dr. Boyce Watkins breaks down how black power can thrive in a capitalist society. In his standard down-to-earth style, Dr. W...

11:47 AM

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...

4:40 AM

Still Black, Still Strong by Dhoruba Bin Wahad, Assata Shakur , Mumia Abu Jamal

Still Black Still Strong is an essential document of the Black Panther Party written by three leading thinkers and party activists who we...

7:36 AM

Womanpower Unlimited and the Black Freedom Struggle in Mississippi

In Womanpower Unlimited and the Black Freedom Struggle in Mississippi, Tiyi M. Morris provides the first comprehensive examination of the...

3:59 AM

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...

4:11 PM

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...

4:30 PM

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...

1:55 PM

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...

1:35 PM

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....

1:11 PM

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...

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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...

12:47 PM

Samurai among Panthers: Richard Aoki on Race, Resistance, and aParadoxical Life

An iconic figure of the Asian American movement, Richard Aoki (1938–2009) was also, as the most prominent non-Black member of the Black P...

3:03 PM

Halifax Champion: Black Power in Gloves

When boxing was in its prime and race relations were at the fore, Dave Downey became a Halifax champion In the 1960s and 1970s, boxing w...

6:55 AM

Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey

New in paperback, this groundbreaking biography captures the full sweep and epic dimensions of Marcus Garvey's life, the dazzling triu...

12:11 PM

The Black Revolution on Campus

The Black Revolution on Campus is the definitive account of an extraordinary but forgotten chapter of the black freedom struggle. In the l...

6:51 AM

Black Woman Reformer: Ida B. Wells, Lynching, and Transatlantic Activism

During the early 1890s, a series of shocking lynchings brought unprecedented international attention to American mob violence. This intere...

8:37 AM

The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement

In 1964 a small group of African American men in Jonesboro, Louisiana, defied the nonviolence policy of the mainstream civil rights moveme...

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