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--------------------------CLASSICAL AFRICAN CIVILIZATION-----------------------------
>>The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality
>>Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization
>>Destruction of Black Civilization : Great Issues of a Race from 4500 >>B.C to 2000 A.D.
>>Egypt: Child of Africa (Journal of African Civilizations, V. 12)
>>Egypt Revisited: Journal of African Civilizations
>>Introduction to African Civilizations
>>Vol. 1: Ancient Egypt the Light of the World
>>Book of the Beginnings Vols. I & II
>>Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire
>>Kush - The Jewel of Nubia
>>Ancient Nubia: Egypt's Rival in Africa
>>World's Great Men of Color Vol I
>>Civilization or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology
>>African Origins of Civilization, Religion, Yoga Mysticism and Ethics >>Philosophy
>>100 Amazing Facts About the Negro
>>Stolen Legacy
>>Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization
>>Black Spark, White Fire: Did African Explorers Civilize Ancient >>Europe?
>>Black Folk Here and There
>>From Babylon to Timbuktu
>>The Rescue of Jerusalem: The Alliance Between Hebrews and Africans >>in 701 B.C.

----------------------------------------------BIBLICAL-------------------------------------------------
>>The Original African Heritage Study Bible
>>Biblical History of Black Mankind
>>The Black Presence in the Bible/Teacher's Edition
>>Beyond Roots: In Search of Blacks in the Bible
>>500 Questions and Answers on the Black Presence in the Bible
>>The Black Biblical Heritage: Four Thousand Years of Black Biblical >>History
>>Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race
>>Bible Legacy of the Black Race : The Prophecy Fulfilled
>>Hebrewisms of West Africa 1930
>>The Falashas: The Forgotten Jews of Ethiopia
>>Saving the Lost Tribe: The Rescue and Redemption of the Ethiopian >>Jews
>>Journey to the Vanished City-The Lemba genetically proven to be >>Levites

------------------------------------------THE MOORS--------------------------------------------------
>>The Golden Age of the Moor
>>The Story of the Moors in Spain
>>Othello's Children in the "New World": Moorish History and Identity in >>the African American Experience

---------------------------SCIENCE/MATHEMATICS/EXPLORATION----------------------
>>Blacks in Science: Ancient and Modern (Journal of African >>Civilizations)
>>Mathematics in the Time of the Pharaohs
>>African science : myth or reality?
>>The Star of Deep Beginnings
>>Africa Counts: Number and Pattern in African Culture
>>The Mande Blacksmiths: Knowledge, Power, and Art in West Africa
>>Native African medicine
>>African Fractals: Modern Computing and Indigenous Design
>>They Came Before Columbus : The African Presence in Ancient >>America
>>Black Explorers (American Profiles)
>>A Black Explorer at the North Pole
>>Estevanico, Black Explorer in Spanish Texas
>>Jean Baptiste Dusable: Father of Chicago
>>The Sky Is Not The Limit : Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist
>>Merlin's Tour of the Universe
>>African Americans in Mathematics
>>African Americans in Science, Math, and Invention
>>African Americans in Science and Medicine : An Encyclopedia
>>The Life of Benjamin Banneker: The First African-American Man of >>Science
>>African-American Inventors III
>>Black Pioneers of Science and Invention
>>Black Stars in Orbit: NASA's African American Astronauts
>>They Had a Dream : The Story of African American Astronauts

--------------------------THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE-------------------------
>>Centuries of Greatness: The West African Kingdoms: 750-1900
>>Black Saga: The African American Experience: A Chronology
>>Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America
>>Black Genius: And the American Experience
>>Voices from Slavery : 100 Authentic Slave Narratives
>>African Americans on the Western Frontier
>>The Black West
>>Our Land Before We Die: The Proud Story of the Seminole Negro
>>Confounding the Color Line: The Indian-Black Experience in North >>America
>>The Souls of Black Folk
>>Up from Slavery
>>Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America
>>Southern Horrors and Other Writings; The Anti-Lynching Campaign of >>Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900
>>Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa's Historic >>Greenwood District
>>Invisible Man
>>The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
>>The Harlem Renaissance : Hub of African-American Culture, 1920-1930
>>Harlem Renaissance: Art of Black America
>>James Baldwin : Collected Essays
>>The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey
>>Roots
>>The Huey P Newton Reader
>>Black Power : Politics of Liberation in America
>>The Black Panthers Speak
>>Autobiography of Malcolm X
>>Islam in the African-American Experience
>>Soul on Ice
>>Voices of Freedom : An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement
>>Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965
>>The Civil Rights Movement: A Photographic History, 1954-68
>>The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr and the Speech that Inspired a >>Nation
>>Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr
>>Mis-Education of the Negro
>>Makes Me Wanna Holler : A Young Black Man in America
>>What's Going On
>>The Slaughter: An American Atrocity

-------------------------------------------BLACK WOMEN------------------------------------------
>>Black Women in Antiquity (Journal of African Civilizations)
>>In Praise of Black Women, Volume 1: Ancient African Queens
>>In Praise of Black Women, Volume 2: Heroines of the Slavery Era
>>In Praise of Black Women, Volume 3: Modern African Women
>>Harriet Tubman: The Moses of Her People
>>Narrative of Sojourner Truth
>>Black Women of the Old West
>>Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World
>>Black Women Poets of Harlem Renaissance
>>A Taste of Power : A Black Woman's Story
>>Assata: An Autobiography
>>Zora Neale Hurston : Novels and Stories
>>Crusade for Justice; The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
>>Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Trailblazers and Torchbearers
>>Shifting : The Double Lives of Black Women in America
>>I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
>>When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and >>Sex in America
>>But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies
>>If It Wasn't for the Women...: Black Women's Experience and >>Womanist Culture in Church and Community
>>Souls of My Sisters: Black Women Break Their Silence, Tell Their >>Stories and Heal Their Spirits
>>Crowns : Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats
>>Daughters of Thunder
>>The Black Female Body: A Photographic History
>>Best Black Women's Erotica
>>Best Black Women's Erotica 2
>>When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist >>Breaks It Down
>>No Disrespect
>>Hair Matters: Beauty, Power, and Black Women's Consciousness
>>Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America
>>Hairlocking: Everything You Need to Know: African, Dread and Nubian >>Locks
>>The Conspiracy to Destroy Black Women
>>10 Bad Choices That Ruin Black Women's Lives
>>10 Good Choices That Empower Black Women's Lives
>>101 Ways Black Women Can Learn to Love Themselves

-------------------------ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EMPOWERMENT----------------------
>>Blueprint for Black Power: A Moral, Political, and Economic Imperative
>>PowerNomics : The National Plan to Empower Black America
>>Blackonomics: The Way to Psychological and Economic Freedom for >>African Americans
>>Black Labor, White Wealth: The Search for Power and Economic >>Justice
>>Black Enterprise Guide to Technology for Entrepreneurs
>>Black Awakening in Capitalist America: An Analytic History
>>Black Folks Guide to Business Success
>>Markets and Minorities
>>Black Life in Corporate America: Swimming in the Mainstream
>>How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America
>>Black Skin White Masks
>>The Falsification of Afrikan Consciousness
>>Breaking the Chains of Psychological Slavery
>>Afrocentricity: The theory of Social Change
>>The Painful Demise of Eurocentrism: An Afrocentric Response to >>Critics
>>Light from Ancient Africa
>>Know Thy Self
>>Celebrating Kwanzaa

-------------------------------------------BLACK MUSIC--------------------------------------------
>>Negro Slave Songs in the United States
>>Deep River and the Negro Spiritual Speaks of Life and Death
>>The Spirituals and the Blues
>>Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s
>>The Roots of the Blues: An African Search
>>Blues and the Poetic Spirit
>>The Land Where the Blues Began
>>Urban Blues
>>Blues Legacies and Black Feminism : Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie >>Smith, and Billie Holiday
>>Blues People : Negro Music in White America
>>A Century of Jazz: From Blues to Bop, Swing to Hiphop
>>The Birth of Bebop: A Social and Musical History
>>The Jazz Revolution: Twenties, America, and the Meaning of Jazz
>>Milestones: The Music and Times of Miles Davis
>>Louis Armstrong
>>Straight, No Chaser: The Life and Genius of Thelonious Monk
>>Beyond Category: The Life and Genius of Duke Ellington
>>John Coltrane: His Life and Music
>>Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie
>>Charlie Parker: His Music & Life
>>Groovin' High: The Life of Dizzy Gillespie
>>One Nation Under a Groove: Motown and American Culture
>>Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of >>Freedom
>>Nowhere to Run: The Story of Soul Music
>>Motown : The Golden Years: The Stars and Music That Shaped a >>Generation
>>Marvin Gaye: What's Going On and the Last Days of the Motown >>Sound
>>Jimi Hendrix Electric Gypsy
>>My Son Jimi
>>The Vibe History of Hip Hop
>>Back In The Days
>>The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African >>American Culture
>>Droppin' Science: Critical Essays on Rap Music and Hip Hop Culture
>>Yes Yes Y'All: The Experience Music Project Oral History of Hip-Hop's >>First Decade
>>Hip Hop America
>>Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America
>>Who Shot Ya? Three Decades of Hiphop Photography
>>United States Vs Hip Hop the Historical and Political Significance of >>Rap Music
>>Fight the Power : Rap, Race, and Reality
>>Rebel for the Hell of It: The Life of Tupac Shakur
>>Holler If You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur
>>Ruminations: Krs-One

------------------------------SCIENCE FICTON/FANTASY/HORROR------------------------
>>Dark Matter
>>Dark Matter 2: Reading the Bones
>>Visions of the Third Millennium: Black Science Fiction Novelists Write >>the Future
>>Black Science Fiction
>>Future Earths: Under African Skies
>>Futureland
>>Lilith's Brood
>>Bloodchild: And Other Stories
>>Parable of the Sower
>>Parable of the Talents
>>Kindred
>>Adulthood Rites
>>Dawn
>>Wild Seed
>>Mind of My Mind
>>Patternmaster
>>Blue Light
>>Skin Folk
>>Brown Girl in the Ring
>>Midnight Robber
>>Mojo: Conjure Stories
>>The Living Blood
>>The Between : Novel, A
>>Zulu Heart
>>Lion's Blood
>>Charisma
>>My Soul to Keep
>>Iron Shadows
>>Streetlethal
>>Gorgon Child
>>Firedance
>>A Key Lost In Time, The Return Of The Past
>>Stigmata : A Novel
>>Black No More (The Black Classic Series from X Press)
>>The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural

--------------------------MURDER MYSTERY/ACTION ADVENTURE----------------------
>>Devil in a Blue Dress
>>A Red Death
>>White Butterfly
>>Black Betty
>>A Little Yellow Dog
>>Gone Fishin
>>Bad Boy Brawly Brown: An Easy Rawlins Mystery
>>Color of Justice
>>Blowback
>>Shades of Black: Crime and Mystery Stories by Black Authors
>>Hit Time: A Mystery
>>All About Mary: A Mick Hart Mystery
>>Murder in the Rose City
>>Proud and Angry Dust
>>Time of the Assassins
>>Criminal Element
>>Violent Crimes
>>Shades of Black: Crime and Mystery Stories by African-Americans
>>Sympathy for the Devil
>>A Prayer for Deliverance
>>Not Long for This World: An Aaron Gunner Mystery
>>All the Lucky Ones Are Dead
>>When Last Seen Alive
>>If I Should Die
>>A Toast Before Dying
>>No Time to Die
>>Do or Die
>>No Hiding Place
>>When Death Comes Stealing (A Tamara Hayle Mystery)
>>The Devil Riding
>>Where Evil Sleeps
>>Easier to Kill
>>Blanche Cleans Up
>>Blanche Among the Talented Tenth
>>Mama Stands Accused: A New Holloway House Mystery
>>Mama Pursues Murderous Shadows
>>Inner City Blues: A Charlotte Justice Novel
>>Do Not Go Gently

----------------------------------COMIC BOOKS/ANIMATION----------------------------------
>>Maatkara (cool egyptian animation starring amel lerioux from groove theory)
>>Urbanstylecomics
>>Gettosake Comics
>>Ghettostone Comics
>>Dreadfullyslick.com
>>Dark Angel Productions
>>Daathrekh.com
>>Badazzmofo.com
>>Chromium Comics Studio
>>Enforcers
>>Extraordinary Grands
>>Freeze-dna
>>Triumph Comics
>>Swiftsaga
>>The Raven
>>Askari Hodari
>>Urbanentertainment.com
>>The Nephilum
>>Stealthcomics
>>Urbanavengers
>>Smokecomic.com
>>Blackstar

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