Author:  Ralph Ginzburg, compiles vivid newspaper accounts from 1886 to 1960 to provide insight and understanding of the history of racial violence.

Author: Dr. Michael Eric Dyson - April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, JR.'s Death and How It Changed America.   On April 4, 1968, at 6: 01 PM, while he was standing on a balcony at a Memphis hotel, Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and fatally wounded. Only hours earlier King—the prophet for racial and economic justice in America—ended his final speech with the words, “I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight, that we as a people will get to the Promised Land.”

Author: Arthur R. Ashe, Jr. Details of how African-American athletes have been excelling in track and field since the first modern Olympics.

Author: Howard Zinn - Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People’s History of the United States is the only volume to tell America’s story from the point of view of -- and in the words of -- America’s women, factory workers, African Americans, Native Americans, working poor, and immigrant laborers.

Author: I.Jabulani Tafari - The author, Tafari is a Jamaican born, multimedia jounalist who has been working in T.V., radio and print for some 30 years.

Author: Knight, Melnicove, O'Brien - This book dispels the misconception that Africa is a country.

Author: Clarence Lusane, although liberalism still remains the dominant political ideology of the Black leadership elite, new political trends have emerged in the African American community.

Author: Ivan Van Sertima - There is so much information about the African contribution to world civilization that merely contemplating it and its spiritual/cultural implications will create a transformative hunger in you for knowledge that otherwise would have never materialized.

Author: J.A. Rogers - Africa's Gift to America is another classic which should be added to the library of every serious student of African American history.

Author: Ishakamusa Barashango - Afrikan Genesis. In the past 400 years or so, many misleading ideas have been propagted about the world's beginnings and the establishment of its first civilizations.