A few years ago I read a book by Merlin Stone called When God Was a Woman, in which she wrote that “in the beginning, people prayed to the Creatress of Life, the Mistress of Heaven. At the very dawn of religion, God was a woman…the female deity in the Near and Middle East was revered as Goddess—much as people today think of God…the original status of the Goddess was as supreme deity…the Great Goddess was regarded as immortal, changeless, omnipotent; and the concept of fatherhood had not yet been introduced into religious thought...

John Henrik Clarke asked “why do we pull so little on the greatness that we have been in order to understand the greatness we still have to be?” I believe the answer lies in popular promotion, which means that we pull so little on that greatness primarily because we have been allowed or even encouraged to know so little about it, especially in the area of Black-on-White revolutionary violence...

For years a growing number of Black people in America and Africa have alleged that the “White” (federal/colonial) government created HIV/AIDS to exterminate Black people. It is arguable that the only reason why all Black people don’t accept this alleged crime as fact is because the allegation is missing a key element—a motive...

This book began in search of a sophisticated solution for a superficially simple question: What would make me not abandon my son the same way my father had abandoned me? In hope of finding the answer, I began by rewording the question: What psychohistorical forces made my father and so many other Black fathers abandon their children? I ultimately realized the answer: Learned helplessness regarding both Black manhood and fatherhood deliberately taught to the Black man since enslavement via the historically oppressive reality of White supremacy...

I've witnessed several people fuss and fight over the real enemy of Black people and the causes of our plight, but their inability to rise over their emotions prohibited any significant communication from ever manifesting...

This book depicts the socio-philosophic and historic influence and impact of the lyrics of Curtis Mayfield, Bob Marley, and Tupac Shakur. My most emphasized objective is the critically conscious dissection and elucidation of the lyrical artistry created by these great men...

Think. Create. Record. Genuine Bonded Leather Journal with 240 ruled interior pages. 8" x 5" cover size.

Frances Cress Welsing defined inferiorization as “the conscious, deliberate and systematic process utilized specifically by a racist (white supremacist) social system, as conducted through all of its major and minor institutions...

According to Robert L. Smith, “the achievement gap separating black boys from just about everyone else springs from a powerful, anti-education culture rising in the black community. Parents who undervalue education, and a mass media that peppers youth with the quick, shallow rewards of hip-hop lifestyle, are steering alarming numbers of boys down a dead-end path...

Sixty years ago, when Truman Gibson reported for duty at the War Department, Washington, D.C. was a southern city in its unbending segregation as well as in its steamy summers. Gibson had no illusions, but as someone who'd enjoyed the best of the vibrant black culture of prewar America, he was shocked to find the worst of the Jim Crow South in the nation's capital...