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Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur This intensely personal and political autobiography belies the fearsome image of JoAnne Chesimard, a.k.a. Assata Shakur, long projected by the media and the state. MORE INFO |
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By Any Means Necessary by Malcolm X We want freedom by any means necessary.
We want justice by any means necessary.
We want equality by any means necessary.—Malcolm X
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Marxism, Reparations and the Black Freedom Struggle Within these pages is flesh-and-blood understanding that the demand for reparations—justice, delayed and denied—is a component of a dynamic struggle for national liberation that has raged since mass kidnappings of millions of people from Africa, the holocaust of the Middle Passage and enslavement. MORE INFO |
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Malcolm X Talks to Young People Young people are the ones who most quickly identify with the struggle and the necessity to eliminate the evil conditions that exist. And here in this country, it has been my observation that when you get into a conversation on racism and discrimination and segregation, you will find young people more incensed over it—they feel more filled with an urge to eliminate it.—Malcolm X, January 1965
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Malcolm X on Afro-American History When we send our children to school they learn nothing about us other than that we used to be cotton pickers. Why, your grandfather was Nat Turner; your grandfather was Toussaint L'Ouverture; ... and it was your grandmother's hands who rocked the cradle of civilization. ...—Malcolm X, June 28th,1964 MORE INFO |
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Negroes With Guns by Robert F Williams First published in 1962, "Negroes with Guns" is the story of a Southern Black community's struggle to defend itself with guns against the Ku Klux Klan and other racist groups. MORE INFO |
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Forever Free by Eric Foner Illustrations edited and with commentary by Joshua Brown The story of emancipation and reconstruction. No event in the history of the United States is more important than the social revolution that emancipated four million enslaved Africans. MORE INFO |
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It This valuable first-hand account of the historic Montgomery Bus Boycott, written by an important, behind-the-scenes organizer, evokes the emotional intensity of the civil rights struggle.—Coretta Scott King
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The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks In this powerful and controversial book, distinguished African-American political leader and thinker Randall Robinson makes a persuasive case for the restoration of the rich history that slavery and segregation severed. MORE INFO |
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John Brown by W.E.B. DuBois On October 16, 1859, John Brown and a group of 22 men launched a courageous attack on the federal armory at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia to obtain weapons and arm the slaves... "…this book is at once a record of and a tribute to the man who of all Americans has perhaps come nearest to touching the real souls of black folk."—W.E.B. DuBois
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The Life & Writings of Frederick Douglass, Vol. 5 1844-1860 On the eve of the most significant war ever fought by the United States, the battle over the future of the hated system of chattel slavery, is explored, debated and explained with the passion and intelligence of one of the most important figures in U.S. history.
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Soledad Brother the Prison Letters of George Jackson "The power of George Jackson's personal story remains painfully relevant to our nation today, with its persistent racism, its hellish prisons, its unjust judicial system, and the poles of wealth and poverty that are at the root of all of that. I hope the younger generation, black and white, will read Soledad Brother." - Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States
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A Voice from Harper's Ferry A unique book from the raid on Harper's Ferry. Osborne P
Anderson was the only Black combatant to survive the raid and to write about it. MORE INFO |
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We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party by Mumia Abu-Jamal Mumia Abu-Jamal provides the world with an important history of the founding of the Philadelphia Black Panther Party in his new book We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party.
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State of the Race Creating our 21st Century The State of the Race is a collection of cutting edge essays by renowned activists, organizers and scholars examining the critical local, national, and international perspectives of African Americans, African Caribbeans, African Latina/os and other African people. MORE INFO |
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Crossing Bok Chitto - A Choctaw Tale of Friendship & Freedom There is a river called Bok Chitto that cuts through Mississippi. In the days before the War Between the States, in the days before the Trail of Tears, Bok Chitto was a boundary, on one side of the river lived the Choctaws, a nation of Indian people. On the other side lived the plantation owners and their slaves. Thus begins the story about seven slaves who cross the big river to freedom, led by a Choctaw angel walking on water!
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Haiti: A Slave Revolution The Haitian Revolution is a singular event in history. Never before or since has an enslaved people risen up, broken their chains, and established a new state. Haiti's history has been turbulent, but not for the reasons given by mainstream historians. Drawing from a wide range of authors, experts, and historical texts, this book challenges the stereotypes and counters 200 years of cultural myths. MORE INFO |
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Voices Rising Celebrating twenty years of Black Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Writing. Voices Rising gathers more than sixty writers whose work forms an important bridge among members of Black LGBT communities. MORE INFO |
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American Negro Slave Revolts This is one of the very best-researched, and well-documented works on the vast, prolonged struggle of enslaved Africans for freedom.
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Jailhouse Lawyers by Mumia Abu-Jamal "This is the story of law learned," writes Abu-Jamal, "not in the ivory towers of multi-billion-dollar endowed universities [but] in the bowels of the slave-ship, in the hidden, dank dungeons of America ..." MORE INFO |
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Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington From the era of slavery to the present day, the first full history of Black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the medical establishment.
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Harriet Tubman, Secret Agent How daring slaves and free Blacks spied for the Union during the Civil War. MORE INFO |
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Welcome to the Terrordome The Pain, Politics, and Promise of Sports By Dave Zirin. Foreword by Chuck D From the introduction: ...if we wish to reclaim sports, we must look at history, learn from the role sports play in our world, and listen to the athletic rebels of today... MORE INFO |
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The Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois As scholar, author, lecturer and organizer, Dr. Du Bois was a leader since the turn of the century in the movement for Black liberation. The story of his personal life is thus inseparable from the entire course of this struggle. MORE INFO |
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DVD: The Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation Tells the gripping story of Robert King, Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox, men who have endured solitary confinement longer than any known living prisoner in the United States. Politicized through contact with the Black Panther Party while inside Louisiana’s prisons, they formed one of the only prison Panther chapters in history and worked to organize other prisoners into a movement for the right to live like human beings. MORE INFO |
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II In this ground-breaking historical exposé. Douglas A Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in U.S. history—an "Age of Neoslavery" that thrived from the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. MORE INFO |
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On My Journey Now by Nikki Giovanni Nikki Giovanni celebrates through spirituals the choice of Africans to overcome the tragedy of enslavement, to find a way to survive, to worship, and to build a better tomorrow. MORE INFO |
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To Die for the People by Huey Newton This new release of a classic collection of Huey Newton's writings and speeches traces the development of his personal and political thinking. A beautiful collection! MORE INFO |
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DVD: Disappearing Voices: The Decline of Black Radio Essential for those fighting to protect and take back non-corporate community-based radio. MORE INFO |
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Ain't Nothing But a Man— My Quest to Find the Real John Henry "John Henry told the Captain, 'A man ain't nothing but a man. Before I let your steam drill beat me down, I'll die with a hammer in my hand.'" Who was John Henry? MORE INFO |
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DVD: In Prison My Whole Life Mumia Abu-Jamal was arrested the day William Francome was born. William is now 25 years old. Mumia is still on Death Row. Features Mos Def, Snoop Dogg, Alice Walker, Noam Chomsky Steve Earl. MORE INFO |
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From the Bottom of the Heap: The Autobiography of Black Panther Robert Hillary King In 1970, a jury convicted Robert Hillary King of a crime he did not commit and sentenced him to 35 years in prison. He was thrown into solitary confinement, where he remained in a six by nine foot cell for 29 years as one of the Angola 3. In 2001, the state grudgingly acknowledged his innocence and set him free. This is his story.
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