BLACK AWAKENING MOVEMENT

SUGGESTED READING LIST

Top 10 Suggested Books/Readings

Introduction to African Civilization

Destruction of Black Civilization

Two Thousand Seasons

The Isis Papers

Yurugu

Autobiography of Malcolm X

Miseducation of the Negro

A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Wretched of the Earth

 100 Amazing Facts about the Negro by J. A. Rogers

 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
 A Torchlight for America by Louis Farrakhan
 Africa: Mother of Western Civilization by Yosef Ben Jochannan
 African Genesis by Ishakamusa Barashango
 African Holistic Health by Llaila Afrika
 African Origin of Civilization by Cheikh Anta Diop
 African Presence in Early America by Ivan Van Sertima
 African Presence In Early Asia by Runoko Rashidi and Ivan Van Sertima
 African Presence in Early Europe by Ivan Van Sertima
 African Woman the Original Guardian Angel by Ishakamusa Barashango
 Afrikan-Centered Consciousness versus the New World Order: Garveyism
in the Age of Globalism by Amos N. Wilson
 An Afrocentric Guide To A Spiritual Union by Ra Un Nefer Amen
 Anacalypsis Part 1 and 2, An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic
Isis or an Inquiry into Ancient Egypt: The Light of the World by Gerald
Massey
 Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur and Angela Davis
 Beautiful, Also, are the Souls of my Black Sisters by Jeanne Noble
 Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America 1619-1964: The Classic
Account of the Struggles and Triumphs of Black Americans by Lerone
Bennett Jr.
 Before the Mayflower by Lerone Bennett
 Behold, a Pale Horse by Milton William Cooper
 Black Bourgeoisie by E. Franklin Frazier
 Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth by Richard Right
 Black Genesis: The Prehistoirc Origins of Ancient Egypt by Robert Bauval
and Thomas Brophy
 Black Jacobins by C. L. R. James
 Black on Black Violence: The Psychodynamics of Black Self-Annihilation in
Service of White Domination by Amos N. Wilson
 Black Spark White Fire by Richard Pope
 Black Women for Beginners by S. Pearl Sharp
 Black Women in Antiquity by Ivan Van Sertima
 Blood Money: The True Epic Of Christopher Columbus by Robert
Strongrivers
 Blue Print for Black Power: A Moral, Political and Economic Imperative for
the Twenty-First Century by Amos N. Wilson
 Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority by Tom Burrell
 Christianity Before Christ by John G. Jackson
 Christianity in Afrika Before Christ by John Henrik Clarke
 Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: Slavery and the Rise of
European Capitalism by John Henrik Clarke
 Chronology of the Bible by Yosef Ben Jochannan
 Civilization or Barbarism: An Authenitic Anthropology by Cheika Anta
Diop
 Cultivation by Ra Un Nefer Amen
 Death of A King: The Real Story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Final Year By
Tavis Smile
 Decolonizing the African Mind by Chinwqizu
 Denmark Vesey: The Buried Story of America's Largest Slave Rebellion
and the Man Who Led It by David Robertson
 Divine Speech by Jacob Carruthers
 Echoes of the Old Darkland by Charles S Finch
 Egypt Child of Africa by Ivan Van Sertima
 Egypt Revisited by Ivan Van Sertima
 Ethiopia and the Origin of Civilization by John Jackson
 First Word: Black Scholars, Teachers, Thinkers, Warriors, Knowledge,
Wisdom, Mental Liberation by Kwaku Person-Lynn
 Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream by Lerone Bennett, Jr.
 From Afrikan Captives to Insane Slaves: The Need for Afrikan History in
Solving the "Black" Mental Health Crisis in "America" and the World by
Yosef Ben-Jochannan
 From Babylon to Timbuktu by Rudolph R. Windsor
 From Niggas to Gods (Vol 1 & 2) by Akil
 Gerald Massey's Lectures by Gerald Massey
 Globalism by Amos N. Wilson
 God, the Bible and the Black Man’s Destiny by Ishakamusa Barashango
 Golden Age of the Moorby Ivan Van Sertima
 Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare by Kwame Nkrumah
 Hebrews to Negroes by Ronald Dalton Jr.
 How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney
 How to Be a Slave by Julius Lester and Tom Feelings
 I May Not Get There with You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr. by Michael
Eric Dyson
 I Write What I Like: Selected Writings by Steve Biko
 In Praise Of Black Women: Ancient African Queens by Simone Schwarz-
Brat
 Introduction to African Civilizations by John Jackson
 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
 Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
 Kemet Afrocentricity and Knowledge by Molefi Asante
 Kill them before they grow: Misdiagnosis of African American boys in
American classrooms by Michael Porter
 KMT: In The House Of Life by Ayi Kwei Armah
 Knowledge of Self: A Collection of Wisdom on the Science of Everything
in Life by C'BC Alife Allah
 Knowledge of Self: Understanding the mind of the Black Male by Steven
Kniffely
 Knowledge; Wisdom, Mental Liberation by Kwaku Personby Lynn
 Let the Circle Be Unbroken: African Spirituality in the Diaspora by
Marimba Ani
 Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson
Mandela
 Ma'at the 11 laws of God by Ra Un Nefer Amen
 Make Me Wanna Holler by Nathan McCall
 Man, God & Civilization by John Jackson
 Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown
 Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black
Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington
 Melanin: A key to Freedom by Dr. Richard D. King
 Melanin: The Chemical Keys to Black Greatness (Vol. I) by Carol Barnes
 Melanin: The Organizing Molecule Berkley CA: Institute for the Study of
Consciousnesses (Thesis)
 Message To The Blackman in America by Elijah Muhammad
 Metu Neter Vol. 1: the Great Oracle of Tehuti and the Egyptian System of
Spiritual Cultivation by Ra Un Nefer Amen
 Metu Neter Vol. 2. Anuk Ausar, the Kamitic Initiation System by Ra Un
Nefer Amen
 Metu Neter Vol. 3. The Key To Miracles by Ra Un Nefer Amen
 Metu Neter Vol. 4. The Initiate's Daily Meditation Guide by Ra Un Nefer
Amen
 My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass
 Native Son by Richard Wright
 Nature Knows No Color Lines: Research into the Negro Ancestry in the
White Race by J.A. Rogers
 Negroes with Guns by Robert F. Williams
 Nigger: An Autobiography by Dick Gregory
 Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization (Exploding the Myths) by Anthony
T. Browder
 Nuricide: The Nutritional Destruction of The Black Race by Llaila Afrika
 Of the Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, And Initiation in the Life of an
African Shaman by Malidoma Patrice Some'
 Olaudah Equiano Autobiography
 Our Black Seminarians & Black Clergy Without A Black Theology by Yosef
Ben-Jochannan
 Pagan Origins of the Christ Myth by John Jackson
 Paul Bogleand the Morant Bay Rebellion
 Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey Volumes I & II by Marcus
Garvey and Amy Jacques Garvey
 Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Joy Angela Degry
 PowerNomics: The National Plan To Empower Black America by Dr. Claud
Anderson
 Ready For Revolution by Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)
 "Resewt (South) is Up” or “Why Africans Live In a World Turned Upside
Down" by Akinjide B. Montgomery
 Revolution by the Book: The Rap is Live by Jamil Alby Amin
 Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton
 Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Hewton
by Bobby Seale
 Sex and Race, VOL. I, II, III by J. A. Rogers
 Shades of Memnon: Book I, II, and III by Brother G
 Shadow of the Third Century: A Revaluation of Christianity by Alvin Boyd
Kuhn
 Slavery by Another Name: The Re- Enslavement of Black Americans from
the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon
 Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson by George
Jackson and Jean Genet
 Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois
 Spiritual Warriors are Healers by Mfundishi Jhutyms Ka N. Heru Hassn K
Salim
 Stolen Legacy: The Egyptian Origins of Western Philosophy by George M.
James
 The Africans Who Wrote the Bible by Nana Banchie Darkwah
 The Ankh: African Origin of Electromagnetism by Nur Ankh Amen Amen
 The Art of War by Sun Tzu
 The Autobiography of Malcolm X As Told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X,
Alex Haley and Attallah Shabazz
 The Beginnings of Gnostic Christianity by Gordon L. Rylands
 The Bible Myth: The African Origins of the Jewish People by Gary
Greenberg
 The Big Black Fire by Robert H. DeCoy
 The Black Seminoles by Kenneth W. Porter
 The Children Of The Sun by George Wells Parker
 The Choice by Sam Yette
 The Condition, Elevation, Emigration and Destiny of the Colored People
of the United States by Martin R. Delany
 The Cultural Unity of Black Africa: The Domains of Matriarchy & of
Patriarchy in Classical Antiquity by Cheikh Anta Diop
 The Destruction of the Black Civilization: Great Issues of A Race from 4500
BC to 2000 AD by Chancellor Williams (Highly Recommended)
 The Falsification of African Consciousness by Amos N . Wilson
 The Fortunes of Africa: A 5000 year History of Wealth, Greed and
Endeavor by Martin Meredith
 The Historical Jesus and the Mythical Christ by Gerald Massey
 The Husia by Maulana Karenga
 The Iceman Inheritance: Prehistoric Sources of Western Man's Racism,
Sexism, and Aggression by Michael Bradley
 The Irritated Genie by Jacob Carruthers
 The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors by Dr. Frances Cress Welsing
 The Last of the Gnostic Masters by Thomas Sawyer Spivey
 The Maroon Within Us by Asa Hilliard
 The Mis-education of the Negro by C.G. Woodson
 The Myth of Genesis and Exodus by Yosef Ben Jochannan
 The Need For A Black Bible by Yosef Ben Jochannan
 The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by
Michelle Alexander
 The Origin of Languages, Nations, and Religions by Godfrey Higgins
 The Psychopathic Racial Personality by Dr. Bobby E. Wright
 The Real Facts About Ethiopia by J. A. Rogers
 The Science of Melanin: Dispelling the Myths by T. Moore
 The Shaping of Black America by Lerone Bennett Jr.
 The Signs And Symbols of Primordial Man by Albert Churchward
 The Skin We're In: Teaching our children to be emotionally strong, socially
smart, and Spiritually Connected by Janie Victoria Ward
 The Thirteenth Tribe by Arthur Koestler
 The United-Independent Compensatory Code/System/Concept
Textbook: A Compensatory Counter-Racist Code by Neely Fuller Jr.
 The Word Negro—Its Origin and Evil Use by Richard B. Moore
 The Worlds Sixteen Crucified Saviors by Kersey Graves
 The Wounded Womb by Dr. Phillip Valentine
 The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
 There is A River by Vincent Harding
 They Came Before Columbus by Ivan Van Sertima
 Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
 Two Thousand Seasons by Ayi Armah
 Ugly by Constance Briscoe
 Understanding Black Adolescent Male Violence: Its Remediation and
Prevention (Awis Lecture Series) by Amos N. Wilson
 Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington
 We Ain't No Niggers by N. Quamere Cincere
 What Color was Jesus? by William Mosley
 When God Was a Woman by Merlin Stone
 When Rocks Cry Out by Horace Butler
 When We Ruled: The Ancient and Mediaeval History of Black Civilisations
by Robin Walker
 White Domination by Amos Wilson
 Who Betrayed the African Revolution? And Other Speeches by Dr. John
Henrik Clarke
 Who Is the King of Glory by Alvin Boyd Kuhn
 Why We Can't Wait by Dr. Martin Luther King
 Willie Lynch Letter: The Making of a Slave
 Wonderful Ethiopians Of The Cushite Empire by Drusilla Dunjee Houston
 World's Great Men of Color by J.A Rogers
 Write Me In! by Dick Gregory
 Yurugu by By Marimba Ani

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