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561 works of pan-African thought.
Short story collection including 'The Lesson' and 'Raymond's Run' about Black urban life.
Letter to son about being Black in America, exploring fear, police violence, and the Black body.
Atlantic essay arguing for reparations by chronicling housing discrimination and its lasting effects.
Essays from Obama era exploring race, history, and the limits of progress.
Novel about enslaved man with photographic memory who discovers supernatural power of Conduction.
Novel reimagining the Underground Railroad as actual railroad beneath the Southern soil.
Novel based on true story of abusive Florida reform school and its Black victims.
Novel about first Black female elevator inspector in alternate world, exploring race and progress.
Novel following poor Mississippi family in 12 days before Hurricane Katrina.
Road novel about Mississippi family haunted by ghosts of past, exploring race and incarceration.
Memoir about five young Black men from Ward's Mississippi community who died in five years.
Satirical novel about Black man who reinstates slavery and segregation in Los Angeles suburb.
First book of Broken Earth trilogy set on supercontinent plagued by catastrophic seismic events.
Second book of Broken Earth trilogy continuing Essun's search for daughter amid apocalypse.
Conclusion of Broken Earth trilogy as Essun must choose between saving or destroying the world.
Novel about Ghanaian-American neuroscientist studying addiction while caring for depressed mother.
Collection of Sankara's revolutionary speeches on anti-imperialism, women's liberation, and African unity.
Sankara's speeches on women's emancipation as essential to revolutionary transformation.
Mandela's autobiography from childhood through his release from 27 years in prison.
Collection of Mandela's speeches and writings from his trial and early activism.
Mandela's private journals, letters, and notes revealing his inner thoughts during struggle.
Collection of speeches and writings on African socialism and Tanzanian independence.
Essays developing Ujamaa as African socialism rooted in traditional communal values.
Cabral's speeches on national liberation, culture, and revolutionary theory.
Cabral's analysis of Guinea-Bissau's liberation struggle against Portuguese colonialism.
Play set in 1927 Chicago recording studio exploring tensions between blues musicians and white management.
Play about Troy Maxson, former Negro League player, and his strained family relationships in 1950s Pittsburgh.
Play set in 1911 Pittsburgh boarding house where former slave searches for his wife.
Play about siblings fighting over family piano carved with their ancestry during slavery.
Play set in 1969 Pittsburgh diner during Black Power era, examining community and change.
Play about blues guitarist Floyd Barton's final days in 1948 Pittsburgh.
Play about ex-con trying to rebuild life in 1985 Pittsburgh Hill District.
Play set in 1904 about 285-year-old Aunt Ester and her spiritual cleansing of troubled man.
Final play of Cycle about Black mayoral candidate and gentrification in 1990s Pittsburgh.
Play about unlicensed cab drivers in 1970s Pittsburgh facing urban renewal displacement.
Novel about poet who must decode alien language that may be weapon, exploring how language shapes thought.
Massive experimental novel set in mysterious American city cut off from world.
Space opera about quest for rare element in dying star, exploring mythology and economics.
Collection of Hall's foundational essays on culture, class, representation, and politics.
Essays on race, identity, diaspora, and representation including 'Cultural Identity and Diaspora'.
Essay arguing audiences actively decode media messages rather than passively receiving them.
Philosophical exploration of African identity and critique of racial essentialism.
Argument for cosmopolitan ethics balancing universal moral concern with respect for difference.
Analysis of Algerian revolution's social transformations including role of women and radio.
Posthumous collection of political essays on Algeria, Africa, and decolonization.
Evidence that ancient Egypt was Black African civilization challenging Eurocentric historiography.
Comprehensive synthesis of Diop's arguments for African origins of civilization.
Comparative study of political and social systems in precolonial Africa.
Critique of American education system's failure to teach Black history and its psychological effects.
Long surrealist poem about returning to Martinique, coining 'négritude' and celebrating Black identity.
Poetic essay arguing colonialism dehumanizes both colonizer and colonized, comparing it to Nazism.
Adaptation of Shakespeare's Tempest from Caliban's perspective as colonized subject.
Newton's autobiography explaining Black Panther Party philosophy and his political evolution.
Seale's account of founding Black Panthers, written while imprisoned.
Shakur's account of her life, Black Liberation Army membership, and escape to Cuba.
Manifesto defining Black Power as political and economic self-determination for Black communities.
Pioneering sociological study of African-American community in Philadelphia's Seventh Ward.
Essays, sketches, and poems on race, gender, and labor including famous 'The Souls of White Folk'.
Argument for African-American contributions to American civilization.
Treaty creating framework for African economic integration and eventual common market.