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

Author: Julia Stewart - From Abadeet to Zoan, 1001 African Names offers names for African-Americans to use in naming children or to use as substitutes for their own Western names. ISBN:0806517395

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: Helen Hunt Jackson - Originally subtitled A Sketch of the United States Government's Dealings with Some of the Indian Tribes.........

Author: David K. Shipler - Drawing on ten years of research and interviews with hundreds of ordinary Americans, both black and white, Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Shipler conducts readers on an unprecedented tour of the invisible line that divides the races in this country.

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

Author: P.J. Patterson - This collection of selected speeches by Patterson between 1992 and 2000 covers a wide range of local (Jamaican), regional and international issues delivered in a variety of fora, from the Jamaican Parliament to the United Nations, to regional colleagues and institutions and to students and professionals.

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.