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100 Years of Lynchings by Ralph Ginzburg
21 Facts About Jean Jacques Dessalines by Bayyinah Bello
The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
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A Little Yellow Dog by Walter Mosley
Africa Must Unite by Kwame Nkrumah
Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks
Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor
Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
Akata Woman by Nnedi Okorafor
Americanha by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Angela Davis: An Autobiography by Angela Davis
The Arab Invasion of Egypt by Alfred J Butler and John Henrik Clarke
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur
Autobiography of Malcom X by Alex Haley
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Babalawo the secrets of Afro Cuban IFA by Baba Frank Eyiogbe
Behold a Pale Horse by Milton William Cooper
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Black Betty by Walter Mosley
Black magic religion and the African American conjuring tradition by Yvonne P. Chireau
Black Power: Politics of Liberation in America by Kwame Ture, Charles V. Hamilton, Stokely Carmichael
Black Theater USA, African-American Plays from 1935 to the Present by James V. Hatch and Ted Shine
Black Thunder an Anthology of Contemporary African-American Drama by Steve Carter, Alexander Simmons, George C. Wolfe, et al
Blueprint for Black Power: A Moral, Political, and Economic Imperative for the Twenty-First Century by Amos N. Wilson
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Book of Ifa Adimula the Sacred Voice of God by Mabinuori Adegboyega
Breaking the Chains of Psychological Slavery by Na’im Akbar
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Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi
Collected Poems by Sonia Sanchez
The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1998 by Nikki Giovanni
The Coming by Daniel Black
Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou by Maya Angelou
Consciencism Paperback by Kwame Nkrumah
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Dawn by Octavia E. Butler
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El Monte by Lydia Cabrera and David Font-Navarrete
Ella Baker And The Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision by Barbara Ransby
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The Falsification of Afrikan Consciousness: Eurocentric History, Psychiatry and the Politics of White Supremacy by Amos N. Wilson
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange
Free the Land Republic of a New Africa and a Black Nation State by Edward Onaci
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Giovanni’s Room Paperback by James Baldwin
Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
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Half a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney
The Huey P. Newton Reader by Huey P Newton (Author), David Hilliard (Editor, Introduction), Donald Weise (Editor), Fredrika Newton (Foreword)
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
I Put a Spell on You: The Bizarre Life of Screamin by Jay Hawkins
I Speak of Freedom by Kwame Nkrumah
Ifa: A Complete Divination by Ayo Salami
Ifa Will Mend Our Broken World by Abimbola, Wande
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
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Just As I Am by E. Lynn Harris
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Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
The Kingdom of this World by Alejo Carpentier
Know Thyself by Na’im Akbar
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The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey by Walter Mosley
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Mama Lola A Voodoo Priestess by Karen McCarthy Brown
The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (Unabridged): Including her famous Speech Ain’t I a Woman? (Inspiring Memoir of One Incredible Woman) by Sojourner Truth
Neo-colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism by Kwame Nkrumah
The New Jim Crow Michelle Alexander
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Of Mules and Men by Zora Neale Surston
Of Water and the Spirit by Malidom Some
Our African Unconscious by Edward Bruce Bynum Ph.D. ABPP
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Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
The People Who Could Fly by Virginia Hamilton
Perfect Peace by Daniel Black
Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey by Marcus Garvey
The prison diary of ho chi Minh by Ho Chi Minh
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Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton
Rituals of Resistance by Jason R. Young
Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
Russia and the Negro by Allison Blakely
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Scott’s official history of the American Negro in the world war by Emmett J. Scott
Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton
Selected Speeches of Kwame Nkrumah by Samuel Obeng
The Serpent and the Rainbow a Harvard study by Wade Davis
Sheroes of the Haitian Revolution by Bayyinah Bello
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer: To Tell It Like It Is by Maegan Parker Brooks
Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism by Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Toure)
Sula by Toni Morrison by Toni Morrison
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Tell My Horse by Zora Neale Hurston
Their Eyes are Watching God by Zora Neale Surston
Things I Should Have Told My Daughter: Lies, Lessons & Love Affairs Paperback by Pearl Cleage
This Too Shall Pass by E. Lynn Harris
Two Thousand Seasons by Ayi Kwei Armah
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Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington
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We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
We Will Shoot Back by Akinyele Omowale Umoja
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage
Women, Race and Class by Angela Davis
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12 years a slave
13th
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A Day in the Life
A Family That Preys
A Haunted House
A Raisin in the Sun
A Thin Line Between Love and Hate
About Last Night
Above the Rim
Acrimony
Ali
Alice
Almost Christmas
American gangster
American Son
Animal
Antebellum
Antwone Fisher
ATL
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Baby Boy
Bamboozled
The Banker
Barber Shop
Beloved
The Best Man
The Best Man Final Chapters
The Best Man Holiday
Birth of a Nation
Black is King
Black Like Me
Black Panther
Blue Hill Avenue
Boomerang (movie)
Boxing Day
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Boyz in the Hood
The Brothers
Buffalo Soldiers
The Butler
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Candyman
Carmen Jones
Charlie’s Country
Chiraq
Claudine
The Color Purple
Coming 2 America
Coming to America
Concrete Cowboy
Cooley High
Crash
Crooklyn
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Daddy’s Little girls
Daughters of the Dust
Dead Presidents
Death at a Funeral
Deliver Us from Eva
Detroit
Devil in a Blue Dress
The Distinguished Gentleman
Django
Do the Right Thing
Dolomite
Dreamgirls
Drop Squad
Drumline
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Earl, Cornbread, and Me
Emancipation
Ethnic Notions
Eve’s Bayou
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Farewell Amor
Fences
The Five Heartbeats
Five The Bloods
Fresh
Friday
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The Get Down
Get on the Bus
Get on Up
Get Out
Ghost
Ghosts of Mississippi
Girls Trip
Glory
Gone with the Wind
Good Hair
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Half a Yellow Sun
The Harder They Fall
Harlem Nights
Harriet
He Got Game
The Help
Higher Learning
Homecoming
Honk for Jesus
Hotel Rwanda
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
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I Can Do bad All by myself
I’m Going to Get You Sucker
If Beale Street Could Talk
Imitation of Life
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Jacob’s Ladder
Jason’s Lyric
Joy Road
Judas and the Black Messiah
Juice
Jumping the Broom
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Lady Sings the Blues
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Last King of Scotland
The Legend of Earl the Goat Manigault
Lemonade
Life
Little Man
Look Who’s Coming to Dinner
Lottery Ticket
Love & Basketball
Love Jones
Luv
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Mahogany
Malcolm X
Mandela
The Master
Meet the Blacks
Menace to Society
Miles ahead
Mo Better Blues
Moonlight
Mudbound
My Mainey’s Black Bottom
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Nappily ever after
New Jack City
Next Day Air
Norbit
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One Night in Miami
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Paid in full
Passing
The Photograph
The Piano Lesson
Players Ball
The Players Club
Pootie Tang
Precious
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Rabbit Proof fence
Raising Kanaan
Ray
Red Hook Summer
Renaissance: A Film by Beyonce
Repentance
Roll Bounce
Roots
Rosewood
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Sankofa
School Days
See You Yesterday
Set It Off
Sextuplets
Shaft
She’s Got to Have It
Sister Sister (movie with Diahann Carrol)
The Soloist
Soul Food
Soul Men
Soul Plane
Sounder
South Central
Sparkle
Straight Outta Compton
Strictly Business
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Talk to Me
Tears of the Sun
Them
Think like a Man
Think like a Man Too
This Christmas
Three can Play That game
Ties That Bind
Trading places
Training Day
Twas the Chaos Before Christmas
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The United States vs. Billie Holiday
Uptown Saturday night
Us
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Wakanda Forever
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
Which Way is Up
Who Made the Potatoe Salad
Why Did I Get Married
Why Did I Get Married 2
The Wiz
The Woman King
The Wood
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Yardie
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The 1619 project
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A Different World
Abbott Elementary
All of Us
Amateur Night at the Apollo
Archie Bunker
The Arsenio Hall Show
Atlanta (series)
Awkward Black Girl
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Bad Hair
Benson
The Bernie Mac Show
Black Earth Rising
Black Love Docuseries
Blackish
Blood and Water
BMF
Boomerang (series)
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The Carmichael Show
The Chi
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Def Comedy Jam
Dick Gregory stand up
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Eddie Murphy stand up
Empire
Everybody Hates Chris
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Fat Albert
First Wives club
For Life
Fred Sanford Stand-Up
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
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Giant
The Game
Girlfriends
Good Times
The Godfather of Harlem
Greenleaf
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High on the Hog How African Food Transformed America
How to Get Away with Murder
How to Ruin Christmas
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I Am Not Your Negro
I am Virgo
In living Color
In Our Mother’s Gardens
Insecure
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Jerrod Carmichael HBO special
The Jeffersons
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Key & Peele
Kingdom Business
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The Last OG
Lincoln Heights
Little Fires Everywhere
Living Single
Lovecraft Country
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Moesha
My Wife and Kids
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Naomi
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency
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The One and Only Dick Gregory
One on One
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P Valley
Power
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Queen Sono
Queen Sugar
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Raising Dion
Real Husbands of Hollywood
Richard Pryor Stand-Up
Run the World
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Sanford and Son
Scandal
Snowfall
Soul Food
Southside
The Steve Harvey Show
Summer of Soul
Survivor’s Remorse
Swagger
Swarm
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Tales
Tales from the Hood
Tales of Africa
Twenties
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The Underground
Unprisoned
The Upshaws
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What’s Happening
When They See Us
Wild ‘n Out
Woke
Wu-Tang an American Saga