Greetings Good People,

I was browsing the web earlier when I came across The Black Panther Party’s Reading List. For those of you who don’t know, I’m an avid reader and student of Black History. So adding these much-needed reads to my personal library is imperative. If you’re looking to beef up your book collection as well, they are as follows:

Malcolm X – The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Malcolm X Speaks

Frantz Fanon – Wretched on the Earth

Kwame Nkrumah – I Speak of Freedom and Ghana

Basil Davidson – The Lost Cities of Africa

Herbert Aptheker – The Nat Turner Slave Revolt, American Negro Slave Revolts, and A Documentary History of the Negro People in the U.S.

Lerone Bennett Jr. – Before the Mayflower

Arna W. Bontemps – American Negro Poetry – Story of the Negro

E.D. Cronin – Black Moses: The story of Garvey and the UNIA

W.E.B. DuBois – Black Reconstruction in America – Souls of Black Folk and The World and Africa

Basil Davidson – Black Mother, the Years of the African Slave Trade

Frantz Fanon – Studies in a Dying Colonialism

John Hope Franklin – From Slavery to Freedom – Negro in the United States

E.F. Frazier – Black Bourgeoisie

Michael Harrington – The Other America

Marcus Garvey – Garvey & Garveyism

Melville J. Herskovitts – The Myth of the Negro Past

C.L.R. James – A History of the Negro Past

John Janheinz – MUNTU: The New African Culture

LeRoi Jones – Blues People

C.E. Lincoln – Black Muslims in America

William L. Patterson – We Charge Genocide

J.A. Rogers – Africa’s Gift to America, World’s Great Men of Color, and 3,000 B.C. to 1946 A.D.

Charles H. Wesley & Carter G. Woodson – The Negro in Our History

C. Van Woodward – The Strange Career of Jim Crow

Richard Wright – Native Son

Until Next Time…