Writers Group- Roxanna, Friday Alexander, Jack Crawford, Aunt Dot, Alexander Hillian, Len Hubbard, Andrew Jackson Brown, Sanford Jackson, Mallard Merriman, John Shavers, Samantha Phillips, John Wesley

Egypt - Science, architecture, knowledge, culture

Ethiopia

Cush

Zimbabwe

How did it start?

When?

Where?

How many?

Who participated?

Was there really a trade?

Who benefited?

The Columbus Myth

The Middle Passage

"Seasoning"

Plantation life - What does it truly mean to be owned by another person?

Beginnings in America

Red, White and African slavery in America

Promises broken… the desire for freedom

Rebellions

Movement toward abolition

The Civil War

Reconstruction and Betrayal: Reversal of Fortunes, Jim Crow and the KKK

Buffalo Soldiers, the Rough Riders, the 101^st Infantry, the Tuskeegee Airmen

Peonage, chain gangs

Sharecropping - another form of slavery that continued into the 1960's

Race Riots, lynchings and criminalization of a people

The International Struggle Against Racism, Exploitation, Colonialism and Slavery

The Fight for Racial Equality

Origins

Key figures

Key events

Mississippi 1963

Marcus, Malcolm, Martin, Medgar, Mandella and Me

The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (plus Huey, H. "Rap", Fred Hampton, Stokley)

The Muslims and the Nation of Islam

Integration and the effect on the African-American community

Drugs and other trick bags (Government conspiracy or what?)

Politics as usual

Prisons as tools to foster genocide

Affirmative Action - What does it really mean?

Africa today - Pan Africanism and Neocolonialism

African heroes and sheroes - in every possible endeavor

Black History for Beginners - Denise Dennis

Before the Mayflower - Lerone Bennet, Jr.

The Holy Bible- prefer to use the versions with the names of African people highlighted

Malcolm X - On Afro American History

Selected articles and essays by Jack Crawford

American Negro Slave Revolts - by Herbert Aptheker

Chains and Images of Psychological Slavery - Dr. N Akbar

Many others for short subjects

Africa Series /10 Volumes- Dr. Ali Mazuri

Eye on the Prize

Lectures by Drs. Mackey, Scobie, J.G. Jackson

Black Wallstreet

Sankofa - Order this movie from the web

Malcolm X - The Real Story

All Power to the People - The Story of the Black Panther Party

Various editions of Tony Brown’s Journal and Like It Is

The Promised Land Series

Roots