Below is a a running list of suggested books & readings for increasing awareness, knowledge, and consciousness.

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Click Here For A .pdf of this list: Black Awakening Movement Suggested Reading List

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TOP 10 RECOMMENDED BOOKS

Introduction to African Civilization

Destruction of Black Civilization

Two Thousand Seasons

The Isis Papers

Yurugu

Autobiography of Malcolm X

Miseducation of the Negro

A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Wretched of the Earth

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 Suggested Reading List

• 100 Amazing Facts about the Negro by J. A. Rogers
• 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
• A Torchlight for America by Louis Farrakhan
• Africa: Mother of Western Civilization by Yosef Ben Jochannan
• African Genesis by Ishakamusa Barashango
• African Holistic Health by Llaila Afrika
• African Origin of Civilization by Cheikh Anta Diop
• African Presence in Early America by Ivan Van Sertima
• African Presence In Early Asia by Runoko Rashidi and Ivan Van Sertima
• African Presence in Early Europe by Ivan Van Sertima
• African Woman the Original Guardian Angel by Ishakamusa Barashango
• Afrikan-Centered Consciousness versus the New World Order: Garveyism in the Age of Globalism by Amos N. Wilson
• An Afrocentric Guide To A Spiritual Union by Ra Un Nefer Amen
• Anacalypsis Part 1 and 2, An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic Isis or an Inquiry into Ancient Egypt: The Light of the World by Gerald Massey
• Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur and Angela Davis
• Beautiful, Also, are the Souls of my Black Sisters by Jeanne Noble
• Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America 1619-1964: The Classic Account of the Struggles and Triumphs of Black Americans by Lerone Bennett Jr.
• Before the Mayflower by Lerone Bennett
• Behold, a Pale Horse by Milton William Cooper
• Black Bourgeoisie by E. Franklin Frazier
• Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth by Richard Right
• Black Genesis: The Prehistoirc Origins of Ancient Egypt by Robert Bauval and Thomas Brophy
• Black Jacobins by C. L. R. James
• Black on Black Violence: The Psychodynamics of Black Self-Annihilation in Service of White Domination by Amos N. Wilson
• Black Spark White Fire by Richard Pope
• Black Women for Beginners by S. Pearl Sharp
• Black Women in Antiquity by Ivan Van Sertima
• Blood Money: The True Epic Of Christopher Columbus by Robert Strongrivers
• Blue Print for Black Power: A Moral, Political and Economic Imperative for the Twenty-First Century by Amos N. Wilson
• Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority by Tom Burrell
• Christianity Before Christ by John G. Jackson
• Christianity in Afrika Before Christ by John Henrik Clarke
• Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: Slavery and the Rise of European Capitalism by John Henrik Clarke
• Chronology of the Bible by Yosef Ben Jochannan
• Civilization or Barbarism: An Authenitic Anthropology by Cheika Anta Diop
• Cultivation by Ra Un Nefer Amen
• Death of A King: The Real Story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Final Year By Tavis Smile
• Decolonizing the African Mind by Chinwqizu
• Denmark Vesey: The Buried Story of America’s Largest Slave Rebellion and the Man Who Led It by David Robertson
• Divine Speech by Jacob Carruthers
• Echoes of the Old Darkland by Charles S Finch
• Egypt Child of Africa by Ivan Van Sertima
• Egypt Revisited by Ivan Van Sertima
• Ethiopia and the Origin of Civilization by John Jackson
• First Word: Black Scholars, Teachers, Thinkers, Warriors, Knowledge, Wisdom, Mental Liberation by Kwaku Person-Lynn
• Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln’s White Dream by Lerone Bennett, Jr.
• From Afrikan Captives to Insane Slaves: The Need for Afrikan History in Solving the “Black” Mental Health Crisis in “America” and the World by Yosef Ben-Jochannan
• From Babylon to Timbuktu by Rudolph R. Windsor
• From Niggas to Gods (Vol 1 & 2) by Akil
• Gerald Massey’s Lectures by Gerald Massey
• Globalism by Amos N. Wilson
• God, the Bible and the Black Man’s Destiny by Ishakamusa Barashango
• Golden Age of the Moorby Ivan Van Sertima
• Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare by Kwame Nkrumah
• Hebrews to Negroes by Ronald Dalton Jr.
• How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney
• How to Be a Slave by Julius Lester and Tom Feelings
• I May Not Get There with You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr. by Michael Eric Dyson
• I Write What I Like: Selected Writings by Steve Biko
• In Praise Of Black Women: Ancient African Queens by Simone Schwarz-Brat
• Introduction to African Civilizations by John Jackson
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
• Kemet Afrocentricity and Knowledge by Molefi Asante
• Kill them before they grow: Misdiagnosis of African American boys in American classrooms by Michael Porter
• KMT: In The House Of Life by Ayi Kwei Armah
• Knowledge of Self: A Collection of Wisdom on the Science of Everything in Life by C’BC Alife Allah
• Knowledge of Self: Understanding the mind of the Black Male by Steven Kniffely
• Knowledge; Wisdom, Mental Liberation by Kwaku Personby Lynn
• Let the Circle Be Unbroken: African Spirituality in the Diaspora by Marimba Ani
• Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela
• Ma’at the 11 laws of God by Ra Un Nefer Amen
• Make Me Wanna Holler by Nathan McCall
• Man, God & Civilization by John Jackson
• Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown
• Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington
• Melanin: A key to Freedom by Dr. Richard D. King
• Melanin: The Chemical Keys to Black Greatness (Vol. I) by Carol Barnes
• Melanin: The Organizing Molecule Berkley CA: Institute for the Study of Consciousnesses (Thesis)
• Message To The Blackman in America by Elijah Muhammad
• Metu Neter Vol. 1: the Great Oracle of Tehuti and the Egyptian System of Spiritual Cultivation by Ra Un Nefer Amen
• Metu Neter Vol. 2. Anuk Ausar, the Kamitic Initiation System by Ra Un Nefer Amen
• Metu Neter Vol. 3. The Key To Miracles by Ra Un Nefer Amen
• Metu Neter Vol. 4. The Initiate’s Daily Meditation Guide by Ra Un Nefer Amen
• My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass
• Native Son by Richard Wright
• Nature Knows No Color Lines: Research into the Negro Ancestry in the White Race by J.A. Rogers
• Negroes with Guns by Robert F. Williams
• Nigger: An Autobiography by Dick Gregory
• Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization (Exploding the Myths) by Anthony T. Browder
• Nuricide: The Nutritional Destruction of The Black Race by Llaila Afrika
• Of the Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, And Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman by Malidoma Patrice Some’
• Olaudah Equiano Autobiography
• Our Black Seminarians & Black Clergy Without A Black Theology by Yosef Ben-Jochannan
• Pagan Origins of the Christ Myth by John Jackson
• Paul Bogleand the Morant Bay Rebellion
• Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey Volumes I & II by Marcus Garvey and Amy Jacques Garvey
• Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Joy Angela Degry
• PowerNomics: The National Plan To Empower Black America by Dr. Claud Anderson
• Ready For Revolution by Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)
• “Resewt (South) is Up” or “Why Africans Live In a World Turned Upside Down” by Akinjide B. Montgomery
• Revolution by the Book: The Rap is Live by Jamil Alby Amin
• Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton
• Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Hewton by Bobby Seale
• Sex and Race, VOL. I, II, III by J. A. Rogers
• Shades of Memnon: Book I, II, and III by Brother G
• Shadow of the Third Century: A Revaluation of Christianity by Alvin Boyd Kuhn
• Slavery by Another Name: The Re- Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon
• Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson by George Jackson and Jean Genet
• Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois
• Spiritual Warriors are Healers by Mfundishi Jhutyms Ka N. Heru Hassn K Salim
• Stolen Legacy: The Egyptian Origins of Western Philosophy by George M. James
• The Africans Who Wrote the Bible by Nana Banchie Darkwah
• The Ankh: African Origin of Electromagnetism by Nur Ankh Amen Amen
• The Art of War by Sun Tzu
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X As Told to Alex Haley by Malcolm X, Alex Haley and Attallah Shabazz
• The Beginnings of Gnostic Christianity by Gordon L. Rylands
• The Bible Myth: The African Origins of the Jewish People by Gary Greenberg
• The Big Black Fire by Robert H. DeCoy
• The Black Seminoles by Kenneth W. Porter
• The Children Of The Sun by George Wells Parker
• The Choice by Sam Yette
• The Condition, Elevation, Emigration and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States by Martin R. Delany
• The Cultural Unity of Black Africa: The Domains of Matriarchy & of Patriarchy in Classical Antiquity by Cheikh Anta Diop
• The Destruction of the Black Civilization: Great Issues of A Race from 4500 BC to 2000 AD by Chancellor Williams (Highly Recommended)
• The Falsification of African Consciousness by Amos N . Wilson
• The Fortunes of Africa: A 5000 year History of Wealth, Greed and Endeavor by Martin Meredith
• The Historical Jesus and the Mythical Christ by Gerald Massey
• The Husia by Maulana Karenga
• The Iceman Inheritance: Prehistoric Sources of Western Man’s Racism, Sexism, and Aggression by Michael Bradley
• The Irritated Genie by Jacob Carruthers
• The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors by Dr. Frances Cress Welsing
• The Last of the Gnostic Masters by Thomas Sawyer Spivey
• The Maroon Within Us by Asa Hilliard
• The Mis-education of the Negro by C.G. Woodson
• The Myth of Genesis and Exodus by Yosef Ben Jochannan
• The Need For A Black Bible by Yosef Ben Jochannan
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
• The Origin of Languages, Nations, and Religions by Godfrey Higgins
• The Psychopathic Racial Personality by Dr. Bobby E. Wright
• The Real Facts About Ethiopia by J. A. Rogers
• The Science of Melanin: Dispelling the Myths by T. Moore
• The Shaping of Black America by Lerone Bennett Jr.
• The Signs And Symbols of Primordial Man by Albert Churchward
• The Skin We’re In: Teaching our children to be emotionally strong, socially smart, and Spiritually Connected by Janie Victoria Ward
• The Thirteenth Tribe by Arthur Koestler
• The United-Independent Compensatory Code/System/Concept Textbook: A Compensatory Counter-Racist Code by Neely Fuller Jr.
• The Word Negro—Its Origin and Evil Use by Richard B. Moore
• The Worlds Sixteen Crucified Saviors by Kersey Graves
• The Wounded Womb by Dr. Phillip Valentine
• The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
• There is A River by Vincent Harding
• They Came Before Columbus by Ivan Van Sertima
• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
• Two Thousand Seasons by Ayi Armah
• Ugly by Constance Briscoe
• Understanding Black Adolescent Male Violence: Its Remediation and Prevention (Awis Lecture Series) by Amos N. Wilson
• Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington
• We Ain’t No Niggers by N. Quamere Cincere
• What Color was Jesus? by William Mosley
• When God Was a Woman by Merlin Stone
• When Rocks Cry Out by Horace Butler
• When We Ruled: The Ancient and Mediaeval History of Black Civilisations by Robin Walker
• White Domination by Amos Wilson
• Who Betrayed the African Revolution? And Other Speeches by Dr. John Henrik Clarke
• Who Is the King of Glory by Alvin Boyd Kuhn
• Why We Can’t Wait by Dr. Martin Luther King
• Willie Lynch Letter: The Making of a Slave
• Wonderful Ethiopians Of The Cushite Empire by Drusilla Dunjee Houston
• World’s Great Men of Color by J.A Rogers
• Write Me In! by Dick Gregory
• Yurugu by By Marimba Ani

 

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