Alexandre Dumas
Brief life of the soldier who inspired The Count of Monte Cristo: 1762-1806
by Tom Reiss
November-December 2012He was the son of a black slave and a renegade French aristocrat, born in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) when the island was the center of the world sugar trade. The boy’s uncle was a rich, hard-working planter who dealt sugar ( Read more... )

The Black Fantastic: Highlights of Pre-World War II African and African-American Speculative Fiction
Jess NevinsAfricans, and those of African descent, have not been treated well by speculative fiction, both inside its texts and in real life. Anti-African racism is a fact of life in Western culture, and was even more pronounced before 1945. Not ( Read more... )

Book signing in Los Angeles:

April 1, 2009 Reception for book signing Paule Marshall

5:00 Reception
7:00 Book signing Paule Marshall

Eso Won Bookstore and Black Women for Wellness are collaborating to welcome and celebrate Paule Marshall publishing Triangular Road. Triangular Road is a memoir of Ms Marshall's life during the Harlem Renaissance ( ( Read more... )

The next chapter in the Hemings sagaWhen she was in first grade, Annette Gordon-Reed made history. Although Brown v. Board of Education had passed a decade earlier, the school district of Conroe, Texas, where Gordon-Reed lived in 1963, operated under a system called "freedom of choice." Gordon-Reed's mother, a teacher at the "black" school, and her ( Read more... )

Hi folks!
Right off the bat, I want to state that I'm white (that's me in the icon), so I obviously have a white perspective. And I'm American, and this is US-centric. And I ask a lot of questions. If you comment, you don't have to answer them all, or any of them.
I'm reading James McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom, and it starts with some ( Read more... )

This is sad, but you know, now things are making sense ( Read more... )

i randomly came across a book titled black indians: a hidden heritage by william loren katz. it does justice in exposing a hidden heritage, the contributions and early progress of african-americans, and how relationships developed between africans and native americans ( Read more... )

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I'm new here and I just wanted to say this seems like a wonderful community. I've been reading through the archives and have learned quite a bit already ( Read more... )

Bury the Chains by Adam Hochschild would be a good companion to this movie.