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Title:100 Years of Lynchings
Author:Ralph Ginzburg
# of pages:270
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First published in 1962, 100 Years Of Lynchings is as relevant today as it was then. It presents the reader with vivid newspaper accounts of a "red record of racial atrocities." It is a simple and straightforward presentation. Lacking narration, the news articles speak for themselves. Through them we witness a history of racial atrocities that we cannot afford to forget. Ginzburg skillfully selected articles from a wide range of papers, large and small, radical and conservative, White and Black. Through them, he has created a documentary of Lynchings. The collection of articles which extend into the 1960s provides a sobering view of American history. Few who read the book will remain unaffected by this view.
Out of print since 1972, 100 Years Of Lynchings has been on the wanted lists of many readers. The Black Classic Press edition of 100 Years Of Lynchings assures continued access to this important work and to the tragic history it chronicles.

In 1967, this revolutionary work defined a phrase that had become a central part of the civil rights vocabulary. In BLACK POWER, Stokely Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton exposed the depths of systematic racism in this country and provided a viable political framework for reform. African-Americans could no longer afford to believe that their liberation would come through traditional political process: true and lasting social change would only be accomplished through their unity and independence from the pre-existing order.
While the past twenty-five years have been witness to many changes, the book continues to be of immediate and vital relevance to the racial climate today. In two new afterwords-one by Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) and one by Charles Hamilton-the authors offer unflinching assessment of the tenets of BLACK POWER as they have or have not been realized and reassert the urgency of addressing the liberation struggles of Africans all over the world.

Title:Black Power of Politics of Liberation
Author:Kwane Ture-formerly known as Stokely Carmichael and Charles Hamilton
# of pages:230
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Title:Haile Sellassie I
Author:Harold G. Marcus
# of pages:231
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Always controversial during his lifetime (1892-1975), Haile Sellassie became after his dethronement in 1974, a political icon to some, a monster to others, and to all a legend. There is no understaning modern Ethiopia without a grasp of the emporor's life. This first volume of a projected three-volume biography describes Haile Sellasse's early training as a member of a cultural and political elite, a condition that led him to believe it was normal for an elite to govern and exploit Ethiopia, even if many of its people did not benefit from the prevailing order. Once he became emperor, he viewed himself as the embodiment of Ethiopia's proud sovereignty and independence.
Between 1920 and 1935 Ethiopia made important and obvious progress toward modernization, which Italy regarded as potentially threatening to it's African colonies. Haile Sellassie, ever jealous of his country's sovereignty, redirected trade away from Europe toward Japan and the United States. By so doing he robbed France of a good economic reason to protect Ethiopia from Italy. By 1934 Ethiopia was without allies and without the means to counter the Italian agression.
The emperor suffered defeat, exile, and despair, but he would return in 1941, as a phoenix, to restore the status quo ante.

A FEARLESS AND PENETRATING DISCUSSION OF AMERICA'S GREATEST PROBLEM.
The most debated points of the race question as the relative mentality, physical and facial beauty, sex instinct, chastity, odor, truthfulness, health, honesty, of Negro and Caucasian; as well as politics, the slavery of white people in Colonial America and elsewhere, intermarriage, religion ancient Negro civilization, race attraction and repulsion, Lynching and other aspects all scientifically dealt with in an interesting argument between a southern United States Senator with pronounced views and a polished, well-educated, universally traveled Negro when the two happen to meet under peculiar circumstances.

Title:From Superman to Man
Author:J.A. Rogers
# of pages:130
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Title:The Politics of Empire
Author:Harold G. Marcus
# of pages:205
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BLACK MEN: OBSOLETE, SINGLE, DANGEROUS?
The plight of Black Men in America has historically posed many perplexing questions. Haki Madhubuti aptly responds to these inquiries in a scholarly and insightful work that should rank high on the essential reading list for those who are genuinely concerned about the future of African-Americans. There are those who eloquently define the problems of Black Men and stop at the solution. And there are those who hint at the solutions, but lack the vision and courage to tell us what to do. And then there is HAKI MADHUBUTI.

Title:Black Men
Author:Haki Madhubuti
# of pages:271
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Title:The Valley of Dry Bones Book 2
Author:Rudolph R. Windsor
# of pages:166
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The Valley of the Dry Bones: The Conditions That Face Black People in America, by Rudolph R. Windsor, is a fascinating compilation of history, anthropology, sociology, and theology. In clear, limpid prose, Windsor tells the history of the black people, from biblical times until today. Drawing extensively upon the Bible and many works by eminent scholars in various disciplines, the author has created a work that is at once inspiring and intriguing. He seeks to prove that the black people, more properly called "Black Israelites," are truly God's chosen people and, as such, should become more aware of their unique heritage.
In the latter half of the book, Windsor moves from biblical times to the present. Not only does he delineate the problems blacks face, but he also offers some solutions. Together with the lucid text are illustrations that are both timely and relevant.

A History of the Ancient Black Race including the Black Hebrews
Until comparatively recent times, knowledge that black Africa was the seat of highly evolved civilizations and cultures during a time when Europe stagnated was limited to a small group of scholars. That great empires such as Ghana, and later Mali flourished for centuries while Europe slept through its Dark Ages almost has been ignored by historians. Thousands of years before that, as Rudolph R. Windsor notes in this enlightened book, civilization began with the Black races of Africa and Asia, including the Hebrews, who in biblical times were jet black. Then western Europe had no nations as such, and it's stone age inhabitants had but the crudest tools and lived in caves.
Because of the scarce literature on the contributions of blacks to world civilization, most people today hold the erroneous opinion that the black race have little real history. It was not known, for instance, that the ancient Hebrews, Mesopotamians, Phoenicians, and Egyptians were black. Now, a growing body of literature is presenting the illustrious history of the blacks and their enormous contributions.

Title:From Babylon to Timbuktu Book 1
Author:Rudolph R. Windsor
# of pages:151
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Title:Democracy Matters
Author:Cornel West
# of pages:229
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DEMOCRACY MATTERS is Cornel West's bold and hard hitting critique of the troubling deterioration of democracy in America in the threatening post-9/11 age--and a powerful and inspiring call for the revitalization of the deep democracy tradition in our country, which has waged a war on the forces of imperialist corruption throughout our history. Americas must take back our democracy, and in this brilliant and moving call to arms, Cornel West shows the way.
Praised by The New York Times for his "ferocious moral vision," West, in this vital sequel to his major bestseller and contemporary classic Race Matters, returns to the analysis of what he calls the arrested development of democracy with a masterful diagnosis. He points to the rise of three antidemocratic dogmas that are rendering the energy of American democracy impotent: a callous free-market fundamentalism, an aggressive militarism, and an insidious authoritarianism.
If America is to become a better steward of democratization around the world--especially after our tragic misadventure in Iraq--we must first wake up to the long history of imperialist corruptions that have plagued our own history. Both our failure to foster peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the crisis of Islamist hatred of America have been fueled by hypocrisies in our own dealings with the world. Racism and imperial bullying have gone hand in hand in our country's inexorable drive toward world dominance, and our current militaristic excesses are only the latest expression of that drive. Even as we are shocked by Islamic fundamentalism, our own brand of religious extremist, whom West dubs Constantinian Christians, have joined forces with corporate elites and conservative political leaders in an unholy right-wing alliance. And insidious racism still inflicts debilitating psychic pain on so many of our citizens and has been projected out onto the world.
But there is a rich and empowering tradition in America of fervent commitment to the fight against imperialist corruption ---the last great expression of which was the civil rights movement led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.---and West brings forth the trenchant voices of that great democratizing tradition, from Ralph Waldo Emerson and Herman Melville to James Baldwin and Toni Morrison, in a brilliant and deeply moving call for the revival of our better democratic nature.
This impassioned and empowering call for the revitalization of America's democracy, by one of America's most distinctive and compelling social critics, will reshape the raging national debate about America's role in today's troubled world.

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