History

We study the world in order to change it.What you are holding in your hands is not a finished product. But it is the product of the first year of our work at the Du Bois Movement School. And what a year it has been. The Du Bois Movement School was the...

Critically acclaimed and highly controversial, Black Planet was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and PEN USA Award and was named a Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 1999 by Esquire, Newsday, and LA Weekly. During the 1994-1995 NBA season,...

Empowering Your Journey, One Story at A Time.Grace to Overcome invites you on a spiritual and historical journey, interweaving the rich tapestry of Black history with the profound narratives of the Bible. Crafted by Pastor Bryan C. Loritts, an...

"A carefully understated but chilling account of the whole 3 1/2 centuries during which 15 million Africans were snatched from their homes and delivered into slavery in the New World." --Time In 1518, the Atlantic slave trade began with the landing in...

Born Free & Equal The 1st Michigan Colored Regiment was the state's first and only African American regiment during the Civil War. Courageously enlisting amid societal turmoil, these determined men fought valiantly, on the battlefield and off, in the...

On August 19, 1958, Clara Luper and thirteen Black youth walked into Katz Drug Store in Oklahoma City and sat down at the lunch counter. When they tried to order, they were denied service. As they sat in silence, refusing to leave, the surrounding white...

"Stellar . . . Spectacular . . . [A] heartfelt, painstaking account." --Nell Irvin Painter, The Washington Post "An extraordinary collaboration . . . A profound achievement . . . Downs is a superb, even lyrical writer." --David W. Blight, Los Angeles...

A collective portrait of the Black Power movement by radical journalist and former Black Panther JoNina Abron-ErvinDriven by the Movement collects the stories of twenty ordinary people who did extraordinary things for the Black liberation struggle during...

From a New Yorker staff writer and PEN award winner, a blend of memoir, history, and reportage on one of the most complex and least understood states in America. "In Alabama, we exist at the border of blessing and disaster...." Alexis Okeowo grew up in...

In 1898, during an era of racial terror at home and imperial conquest abroad, the United States sent troops to suppress the Filipino struggle for independence. The deployment included three regiments of the famed African American "Buffalo Soldiers."...

A provocative, revelatory history of British Romanticism that examines the impact of the transatlantic slave economy on the lives and times of some of our most beloved poets--with urgent lessons for today A scrap of Coleridge's handwriting. The sugar...

From MLK to Parks, Douglass to Tubman, Black History Legends Alphabet is an A to Z of the most inspiring, brave, and influential Black heroes to ever live.Beautifully illustrated and powerfully written, this book is a lesson to children everywhere in...