This workbook is for you — the African American youth — to help you better understand and appreciate yourself, our people and your place in the universe.
Chancellor Williams
Rebirth of African Civilization
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Amidst the current debates concerning multiculturalism and political correctness, this publication moves the discussion beyond the vagueness of ethnicity to the reality of African empowerment.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Primer for Blacks
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Brooks talks to her Black sisters and writes a short statement about the need for Black self-awareness.
Vivian Gordon
Kemet and Other Ancient African Civilizations
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Book about Kemet and Other ancient African Civilizations.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Beckonings
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"The aching loveliness of these poems is sometimes close to unbearable. Through the magic of Gwendolyn Brooks' words, we hold in our souls' eye a vivid image of our beauty, we glimpse what we might yet be. An incredible woman, this poet: she would urge us into our ultimate, our transcendent humanity, with her love."
Keith Gilyard
Malcolm X And The Arts
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Malcolm X and the Arts: Ten Centennial Reflections is a landmark collection of essays that examines the influence of Malcolm X on artistic movements and creative works. This volume brings together scholars, artists, and writers to analyze Malcolm X’s impact on Black cultural production from the 1960s to the contemporary moment.
Haki R. Madhubuti
Black Books Bulletin Words Work Volume 1/Number 2 1991
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Rare Black Books Bulletin Newspaper From 1991. In this Issue: Assata Shakur Speaks, Cuba 1991 Interviewed by Nicole Mitchell. Clarence Thomas: The Best White Man For The Job, What Leonard Jeffries really said!, Michael McGee: Armed and Ready in Milwaukee, Books Behind Bars: Censorship in Prisons.
John Henrik Clarke
Who Betrayed the African World Revolution?
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This collection of speeches covers an array of topics from the contributions of Nile Vally civilizations to the future of Pan-Africanism in the 21st century.
Useni Eugene Perkins
Black Fairy and Other Plays
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A series of short plays for young children that can be used as a teaching tool.
Keorapetse Kgositsile
Present Is a Dangerous Place to Live
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The poems are penned by a South African who observed and absorbed the culture of African Americans. These verses contain his observations of this Black culture and the connections with his native South Africa.
Opal Moore
Lot's Daughter
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Chronicles the migration of African Americans from the echoing expanses of Mississippi to the hustle of Chicago life. Chicago-native Opal Moore's poems speak of long-ago ancestors whose presence resonates through time, life, and love. Noted for her graceful wordsmithing, Moore tells of the transgressions of transplantation with heart-wrenching honesty and skill.
Margaret Walker
How I Wrote ""Jubilee""
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Compelling and insightful, this chronicle relays the birth, growth, and development of ""Jubilee,"" one of the most influential novels of the 20th century.
Haki R. Madhubuti
Don't Cry, Scream
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In this classic collection of poetry, the reader will find a bold poem for each crucial issue of Black life.
Carl C. Bell
Sanity of Survival
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Chicago-based psychiatrist Dr. Carl C. Bell presents this collection of articles spanning his 25-year-long career in community psychiatry. His work stresses the importance of providing for Blacks medical and psychiatric assistance.
Marc Lamont Hill
The Classroom and the Cell
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This collection of conversations between celebrity intellectual Marc Lamont Hill and famed political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal is a shining example of African American men speaking for themselves about the many forces impacting their lives. Covering topics such as race, politics, hip-hop culture, education, mass incarceration, and love, their discussions shine a spotlight on some of the most pressing issues in 21st century African American life.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Near-Johannesburg Boy and Other Poems
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Brooks writes about Africa and the African Americans.
Haki R. Madhubuti
Brilliant Flame! Amiri Baraka
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Brilliant Flame! Amiri Baraka is an intergenerational collection of writing from poets, dramatists, musicians, educators, historians and cultural workers and theorists examining the work and influence of Amiri Baraka. The dramatist, novelist and poet, Amiri Baraka is one of the most respected and widely published African-American writers. With the beginning of Black Civil Rights Movements during the sixties, Baraka explored the anger of African-Americans and used his writings as a weapon against racism. Also, he advocated scientific socialism with his revolutionary inclined poems and aimed at creating aesthetic through them. Amiri Baraka’s writing career spans over nearly fifty years and has mostly focused on the subjects of Black Liberation and White Racism. Often recognized as a key founder of the Black Arts Movement, Amiri Baraka was a prolific writer and world-renowned poet. While this book provides its contributors a forum in which to examine his poetic and artistic aesthetics, Brilliant Flame! will more importantly bring to the forefront Baraka’s reach as political activist, historian and cultural visionary.
Jonathan Tilove
Along Martin Luther King
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BUT PAUSE ON KING, begin talking to folks, and the clutter, the noise of the rest of America falls away, and you are transported beyond the sometimes battered facade into a black America that, with astonishing welcome, reveals itself as not only more separate and self-contained than imagined but also more tightly interconnected, powerfully whole. Many black people have moved beyond the neighborhoods through which King runs (though there are now King streets in new black suburbs), but few live beyond the reach of the sounds, sentiments, and stories rooted on King. These are streets united by struggle and circumstance, by history and happenstance. One King street leads to the next and next and back again. For many whites, a street sign that says Martin Luther King tells them they are lost. For many blacks, a street sign that says Martin Luther King tells them they are found.
Sonia Sanchez
A Sound Investment
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A reprint of Sanchez' classic collection of children's stories.
Haki R. Madhubuti
Black Books Bulletin Volume 5/Number 3 Fall
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Rare Black Books Bulletin from 1977. In this issue: "Towards Black Science and Technology" --Carl Spight, "Marxist-Leninism and the Black Revolution" --Ronald Walters, "Two Truths Theory" -Vulindlela Wobogo. BBB Interviews: Dr. J. Fletcher Robinson.
Gwendolyn Brooks
To Disembark
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Unforgettable poetic imagery by one of the greatest female African American poets that captures the viality and complexity of Black life.
Alphonso Pinkney
Lest We Forget: White Hate Crimes
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White Hate Crimes: Howard Beach and Other Racial Atrocities offers a timely examination of the barely discussed, but widely practiced phenomenon of white-on-Black Crime. Although the Civil Rights legislation of the 1950s and 1960s suggested a movement toward racial harmony, the rise of conservatism during the Ronald Reagan Administration helped to create a climate that not only reversed civil rights gains, but lead to a resurgence of hatred and violence toward people of color and the poor. Dr. Alphonso Pinkney presents a riveting, historical account of white racially motivated individual and mob attacks on Blacks during the 1980s. Documenting the striking parallels of these attacks as a return to Reconstruction Era and early 1900s race riot styled lynchings, Pinkney provides engaging profiles of the victims and their attackers, reviews the legal proceedings, analyzes the affects on the families and communities involved, and demonstrates the legal system's complicity in disrupting justice.
Gwendolyn Brooks
Winnie
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A group of poems dedicated to Winnie Mandela, the wife of Nelson Mandela who was the first indigenous leader to hold the office of President of the Republic of South Africa.
Useni Eugene Perkins
Explosion of Chicago's Black Street Gangs-1900 to Present
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This book is the bible on the social pathology of street gangs in Chicago. It should be read by all professionals working with young adults, especially those involved in law enforcement.
Ishmael Reed
Black Hollywood Unchained
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In Black Hollywood Unchained, Ishmael Reed gathers an impressive group of scholars, critics, intellectuals, and artist to examine and respond to the contemporary portrayals of Blacks in films. Using the 2012 release of the film Django Unchained as the focal point of much of the discussion, these essays and reviews provide a critical perspective on the challenges facing filmmakers and actors when confronted with issues on race and the historical portrayal of African American characters. Reed also addresses the black community's perceptiveness as discerning and responsible consumers of film, theatre, art, and music. Contributors to this collection are: Jill Nelson, Amiri Baraka, Cecil Brown, Halifu Osumare, Houston A. Baker Jr., Tony Medina, Herb Boyd, Jerry W. Ward Jr., Ruth Elizabeth Burks, Art Burton, Justin Desmangles, J. Douglas Allen-Taylor, Jack Foley, Joyce A. Joyce, C. Leigh McInnis, Heather Russell, Hariette Surovell, Kathryn Takara, and Al Young.
Philip C. Kolin
White Terror Black Trauma
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The 61 poems here concentrate on some of the most traumatic events in Black history from colonial to contemporary times, from the arrival of enslaved Africans in 1619 to Black revolts, Civil War atrocities, incalculable lynchings, the Tulsa massacre, the brave sacrifices of Rosa Parks, the Freedom Riders, the heroes of school desegregation, the murders of Emmet Till, Dr. King, Fred Hampton, Malcolm X, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, George Floyd, Breanna Taylor, Eric Garner, and Tyre Nichols. And so many other Black tragedies. Each poem here carries a brief head note identifying the person, place, time, or event that addresses the historical context of the poem. Some poems are written in a his/her recollection of the historical event. Above all, each poem highlights the topography of Black trauma, be that a Civil War fort, a lynching tree, a prison, a school, an island, a ghetto, a river, a national monument, a church, or city street. These resistance poems are chronicles, laments, petitions, heroic recollections about racial attacks on Black people in America.
Haki R. Madhubuti
Black Books Bulletin Volume 8 Special Edition 1991
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Rare Black Books Bulletin from 1991. The Challenge Of the 21st Century. New Understandings: Gwendolyn Brooks, Frances Cress Welsing, Useni Eugene Perkins, Vivian Gordon, Chinua Achebe, Keorapetse Kgositsile, Woodie King, Jr. New Directions: Darwin Turner, Derrick Bell, Pearl Cleage, Kalamu ya Salaam, Safisha Madhubuti, Conrad Worrill, Molefi Kete Asante
