Twelve Years a Slave
Solomon Northup
A free Northern Black man is kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South, and spends more than a decade of his life treated as chattel. This is the true story of a man who refused to have his spirit broken and his hope destroyed. Director Steve McQueen brought Northup’s story to the big screen in 2014.
Native Son
Richard Wright
Bigger Thomas commits a heinous crime, but it’s a racist society’s pressures and insecurities that inevitably created Bigger that are inevitably on trial in this Richard Wright classic.
Black Men Obsolete, Single, Dangerous: The African American Family in Transition
Haki R. Madhubuti
The Black family and community are under attack with the focus of the attack aimed squarely at the Black man. By destroying the image and opportunities of Black men, entire communities are suddenly at risk and this is all according to the plan. Haki Madhubuti shares how to counteract the plan.
The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks
Randall Robinson
Trans-Africa Founder and social activist Randall Robinson gives an accounting of the unfathomable financial and societal debt America owes Black Americans for centuries of unpaid labor, inhumane treatment and, most cruelly, the eradication of their history and heritage.
The Destruction of Black Civilization
Chancellor Williams
Historian Chancellor Williams spent 16 years researching and compiling the data to write this comprehensive work on the systematic racist destruction of Black lives and culture.
