Black History

Quilombo dos Palmares: Brazil's Lost Nation of Fugitive Slaves" is a fascinating book about a little known phenomenon in 17th century Brazil. For the full span of the century, a nation of fugitive slaves—some 20,000 people—struggled to survive. They were at almost constant war with the most powerful empires on earth. Nevertheless, they sustained several cities, one a citadel fortress atop a mountain. They had an egalitarian society where women and men were equals. They had a quasi-parliamentary government. Over the course of 100 years, these people from all over Africa (plus some Brazilian Ind ...more

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Between the World and Me
The Souls of Black Folk
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
The Underground Railroad
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
The Color Purple
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Colonial and conquered minds are the most difficult people to engage in any awakening conversation, because they treat every challenging idea as blasphemy and as a threat to the fragile privileges of their temporary enslavement.
Eduvie Donald

Antiblack violencein Chicago was common since at least the 189-s, when blacks were brought in as strikebreakers. The violence grew with the black population. In the two years leading up to mid-July 1919, whhites bombed more than twenty-five homes and properties owned by blacks in white areas...One bombing killed a little girl...The police never arrested anyone, infuriating blacks.
Cameron McWhirter

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