A factual account taken from an array of newspaper articles recalling racial atrocities spanning from 1880 through 1960. The first publication was set to mark the centennial of the Civil War.
“NEW YORK SUN, AUG. 16, 1921 2nd Lynch Mob Desecrates Body of First Mob Victim Coolidge, Tex., Aug. 16—Alexander Winn, A Negro, was hanged by a mob yesterday at Datura. He had been accused of assaulting a seven year old girl. Today his body was burned after another mob had stormed the funeral parlor where it had been taken.” Includes a listing of names of 5,000 black men lynched in the United States from as early as 1859. TD

Publisher: Black Classic
Paperback: 270 pages

“In lecture/essay format, Dr. Ben identifies and corrects myths about the inferiority and primitiveness of the indigenous African peoples and their descendants.”

Publisher: Black Classic
Paperback: 715 pages
Illustrated

It should come as no surprise that the Judeo-Christian-Islamic religious tradition came from Africa. Well, at least according to Dr. Ben, who always has the evidence to prove his point with elaborate hand-drawn maps and diagrams. One of the amazing aspects of Dr. Ben’s work is his ability to pull in so many sources and tie them together into a single, unified theory of history. SC

Publisher: Black Classic
Paperback: 363 pages

Dr. ben-Jochannan’s best-known work, capturing the crux of his Afrocentric research. This overview of what constitutes Africa and Africans challenges and exposes the “Europeanization” of African history, by means of a point-by-point refutation of the distortions committed by more traditional European scholars. SC

Publisher: Black Classic
Paperback: 428 pages
Illustrated

A compressive study and definition of the name “Negro,” starting from its origins at the beginning of the slave trade. Moore proves how the word was used to divide the peoples of African descent and reinforce their supposed inferiority. SC

Publisher: Black Classic
Paperback: 108 pages

“On a dark summer night in 1930, three young men were arrested. Two were lynched. The third, James Cameron, with a noose around his neck and an angry mob calling for his blood, was spared. This is his story told 64 years later with anger, insight and reflection. Cameron’s narrative is as riveting and graphic as the infamous photo of his two friends, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, who were not as fortunate as he.” SC

Publisher: Black Classic
Paperback: 201 pages
Illustrated

Ben-Jochannan takes on the establishment scholars again, this time dispelling the myth that the original Jews were “white.” “This aspect of the history and heritage of the ‘black Jews’ is dedicated to all oppressed African people whose religion differs from those who control the power of life and death over most of us. Out of this it is hoped that a better understanding between African people will prevail in and of our religious differences. Remember, religion is nothing more than a belief, and that any one of them is as Godly as Another.” SC

Publisher: Black Classic
Paperback: 408 pages
Illustrated

“Captures the spirit of George Jackson’s legendary resistance to unbridled oppression and racism… Blood in My Eye was completed only days before its author was killed. Jackson died on August 21, 1971, at the hands of San Quentin prison guards during an alleged escape attempt.” George Jackson on “The Amerikan Mind”: “Frankenstein’s need for a servant was an expression of his diseased ego, so he created a demented, ugly creature, pathologically strong and huge.” On “After the Revolution Has Failed”: “After the killing is done, the ruling class goes on about the business of making profits as usual.”

Publisher: Black Classic
Paperback: 197 pages

Published over 25 years ago, tape recorded and written during its author’s incarceration in the San Francisco County Jail in 1969 and 1970 (on charges of which he was eventually acquitted ), Seize the Time is co-founder Bobby Seale’s personal history with the Black Panther Party. Dedicated to fellow co-founder Huey P. Newton (“the baddest motherfucker ever to set foot in history”), the book chronicles the oppressive political climate provoking the Panthers’ inception and the internal and external struggles it endured as a party, ending with a moving, visionary toast to the future. Vernacular in style and righteously strident in tone, the book reads as a modern history of the oppression of African-Americans. Especially resonant are the events pertaining to repeated governmental attempts (local and federal) to destroy the party and exterminate members. “Paranoia is having all the facts,” William Burroughs once noted, and reading this now, 30 years down the line, it is easy to see what he meant. Also includes an excellent, if brief, new introduction by Seale (1991) in which he states what he now sees as the Panthers’ major accomplishment: “Most importantly, the Black Panther Party exposed institutionalized racism and further defined the phenomenon of white America’s self-righteous and fascist absolutism.” MDG

Publisher: Black Classic
Paperback: 429 pages

This is an account of 50 horrific days on a slave ship, and it will forever haunt its readers with a vision of the inhumane conditions endured by captured Africans. “Many of the Negroes have letters cut on the breast or shoulder, which Antonio tells me, are the marks of the respective owners who, on the vessel’s arrival at Rio, thus recognize their own property.” SC

Publisher: Black Classic
Paperback: 58 pages