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The common narrative of slavery in America revolves around enslaved Africans being transported via cargo ships from West Africa to the American sou...

In the summer of 1964, three men were killed by the Ku Klux Klan in retaliation for their work registering African Americans to vote. Organizing pe...

Rarely does a book stump me, but this one has done it. I have had it on my shelf for months and could only bring myself to read just one or two pag...

This book, like all of them by Zora Neale Hurston, is one of my absolute favorites. Hurston was an anthropologist from my alma mater (Barnard in NY...

What do Kunta Kinte, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Tubman have in common? Their geographies truly connect them across the Americas - from the Afr...

This brief photobook was clearly produced by local talent and Baltimore insiders, who are rare gems for history buffs. This is an easy read, mainly...

You might think you know a little something, something about the Black Literati of the Harlem Rennaissance but - trust me - you don't know the half...

I received the first edition of this book as a high school graduation prize and the word "Africana" has followed me ever since. As an Africana Stud...

Historian Manning Marable's (May 1950 – April 2011) book analyzes different leadership models and uses case studies from 19th and 20th-century Blac...

The book presents the history of the first African American Roman Catholic sisterhood in the United States. The Oblate Sisters of Providence was f...

Vivek Bald's groundbreaking work about the socio-economic integration of Bengali and Muslim South Asian immigrants into Black communities in the U...

In 1927, anthropologist and author Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) is a wealth of knowledge about Black life in the early 1900s. Interviewed in Alab...