Below are books that can be used to empower yourself, and increase your knowledge of Black people. Reading these books can help reveal the truth that has been hidden from us, while destroying the psychological bondage that exists in the minds of many Black people.

If you are aware of any books that should be on the list, send me an email with the name and author of the book, and I will add them to the list.

The Isis Papers
Frances Cress Welssing, M.D. 		The Destruction of Black Civilization
Chancellor Williams 		Breaking the Chains of Psychological Slavery
Na'im Akbar, Ph.D. 		The Mis-Education of the Negro
Carter G. Woodson
Message to the Blackman in America
Elijah Muhammad 		The African Origin of Civilization
Cheikh Anta Diop 		African Origins of the Major "Western Religions"
Yosef A.A. ben-Jochannan 		The Wretched of the Earth
Frantz Fanon
Confessions of Nat Turner
William Styron 		Why Should White Guys Have All the Fun?
Reginald F. Lewis 		From Babylon to Timbuktu
Rudolph R. Windsor 		Scramble for Africa...
Thomas Pakenham
Stolen Legacy
George G. James 		They Came Here Before Columbus
Ivan Van Sertima 		Bad Blood
James Howard Jones 		Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys
Jawanza Kunjufu
The Debt
Randall N. Robinson 		Seize the Time
Bobby Seale 		The Peculiar Institution
Kenneth Milton Stampp 		Salvation
Bell Hooks
Black Economics: Solutions for Economic and Community Empowerment
Jawanza Kunjufu 		What They Never Told You in History Class
Induskhamit Kush 		Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself
Frederick Douglas 		The Souls of Black Folk
W.E.B. Du Bois
Up from Slavery
Booker T. Washington 		The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley
Malcolm X 		Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela 		Just Let Me Play
Charlie Sifford
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