Every “conscious” black reader in the known universe should have these 27 books in the home, or on order, waiting to be delivered. There are thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of books definitely worth your time written by black authors. However, sometimes it’s easier to narrow down the extensive list of options down to a less intimidating number, 27.
I read quite a bit and out all of the books I’ve read or have heard reviews on, these are the best. I either own these books already, have read them before, or have them in my book list on Amazon to order later.
Knowledge is power. If our children were exposed to these books in the household at a young age it could certainly have positive effects in their overall development.
Even as adults, we can become better equipped to prosper in a world opposed to our success and existence by fueling our creative, God-like nature, with truth and information. The more we know the more we can do.
So it’s my opinion that we should use the research and information from the past to help us solve problems we face today. Adjusting ancient techniques to suit our current needs. Keeping our “hidden” history in constant focus in order to avoid making previous mistakes.
Most, if not all of the authors put a considerable amount of effort into researching and writing these books. A lot of them took years to complete. Whether you completely agree with these authors or not, it is your duty to at least be knowledgeable of their perspective in order to further progress your own realizations.
Here’s 27 Books Every Conscious Black Reader Should Have In 2020…
Up From Slavery – Booker T. Washington
The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley – Alex Haley
Message to the Blackman in America – Elijah Muhammad
Assata: An Autobiography – Assata Shakur
Are Prisons Obsolete? – Angela Y. Davis
Yurugu: An African-Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior – Marimba Ani
The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors – Dr. Frances Cress Welsing
The United-Independent Compensatory Code/System/Concept Textbook: A Compensatory Counter-Racist Code – Neely Fuller
Blueprint for Black Power: A Moral, Political, and Economic Imperative for the Twenty-First Century – Amos N. Wilson
Afrikan-Centered Consciousness Versus the New World Order: Garveyism in the Age of Globalism (AWIS Lecture Series) – Amos N. Wilson
They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America (Journal of African Civilizations) – Ivan Van Sertima
Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage – William Loren Katz
Africans and Native Americans: The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples – Jack D. Forbes
100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof: A Short Cut to The World History of The Negro – J.A. Rogers
The Jew a Negro: Being a Study of the Jewish Ancestry from an Impartial Standpoint – Arthur Talmage Abernethy PH. D.
From Babylon to Timbuktu: A History of the Ancient Black Races Including the Black Hebrews – Rudolph R Windsor
The Miseducation of the Negro – Carter Godwin Woodson
How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance – Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin
The Fire Next Time – James Baldwin
I Am Not Your Negro – James Baldwin
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing – Joy Angela Degruy
Dark Light Consciousness: Melanin, Serpent Power, and the Luminous Matrix of Reality – Edward Bruce Bynum Ph.D.
Melanin: What makes Black People Black – Llaila Afrika
Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C. to 2000 A.D. – Chancellor Williams
The Myth of Genesis and Exodus and the Exclusion of Their African Origins – Yosef Ben-Jochannan
African Origins of Major “Western Religions” – Yosef Ben-Jochannan
Breaking the Chains of Psychological Slavery – Na’im Akbar
